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Veritone Acquires Artificial Intelligence Voice Creator VocaliD
Expanding the Multi-Award Winning Veritone Voice Solution with New Capabilities – Enabling the Development of the Iconic Walter Cronkite’s Synthetic Voice.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nExpanding the Multi-Award Winning Veritone Voice Solution with New Capabilities – Enabling the Development of the Iconic Walter Cronkite’s Synthetic Voice.\n\n DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nVeritone, Inc. (NASDAQ: VERI), creator of aiWARE, a hyper-expansive enterprise AI platform, today announced the acquisition of VocaliD, Inc., a U.S.-based company that pioneered the creation of personalized synthetic voices. VocaliD will enhance Veritone’s existing synthetic voice offerings for commercial enterprise including brands, podcasters, broadcasters, studios, publishers and corporations.\n\nWith the addition of VocaliD, Veritone Voice has the ability to control and manage the entire voice creation lifecycle for efficiency and scale. Built on Veritone’s aiWARE, Veritone Voice has the unique ability to work with third-party AI models seamlessly–enabling the integration of the VocaliD model to be leveraged instantly. VocaliD’s robust voice models and proprietary vocal adjustment and audio mixing features integrated with Veritone Voice expand the enterprise grade solution while reducing complexity, cost and management time.\n\nVeritone and VocaliD teamed up with the Cronkite estate and New York Times Bestselling Author Joe Garner, to create the synthetic voice model of iconic American Broadcast Journalist Walter Cronkite for use in educational projects.\n\n“Before knowing about Veritone Voice, I could never have imagined that it would be possible for the people to hear Walter Cronkite’s voice reading his own written words at this pivotal point in our history,” said Joe Garner, Garner Creative Concepts chief executive officer. “Hearing Walter’s voice speak the foreword that he wrote for my book in 1998, We Interrupt This Broadcast, has been incredibly meaningful for me personally and professionally.”\n\nToday, Veritone Voice’s growing list of enterprise clients include Audacy, iHeartMedia, Larry King Interactive, Mediacorp and Premiere Networks. In addition to the late and iconic Walter Cronkite, individual talent for advertisements, endorsements and other voiceover projects are also amongst the Veritone Voice roster such as active and retired sports announcers Randy Hahn and Vin Scully, podcaster Bryan Barletta of Sounds Profitable, radio personality and host Ellen K of Kost 103.5, and YouTube influencers and comedians Rhett McLaughlin ...