Voiceverse NFT, the company that prolific video game voice actor Troy Baker announced he would partner with last week, has now admitted to using voice lines created by a non-commercial rival.
The NFT-powered brand hit the headlines last week after Baker boldly announced he would back the company – and that his fans could “hate”, or “create”. The announcement received a universally negative response.
The idea behind Voiceverse NFT is that you buy the rights to a particular voice – originally performed by a voice actor – as an NFT using planet-burning cryptocurrency. You could then use those audio rights to create your own AI-powered voice lines.
However, in now-deleted tweets, Voiceverse was found to have boasted about using its tech for the voice of a cartoon character – which was in fact created using 15.ai, a popular non-commercial text-to-speech service.
Unlike Voiceverse NFT, 15.ai is free to use and play around with. Using just 15 seconds of voice samples from various fictional characters, its tech lets you type in text and get, say, David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor or Glados from Portal to read out what you wrote.