{"id":39062,"date":"2024-11-11T10:20:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T15:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/?p=39062"},"modified":"2024-11-11T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:04:18","slug":"how-the-felix-goldberg-voice-clone-was-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/how-the-felix-goldberg-voice-clone-was-created\/","title":{"rendered":"How A Holocaust Survivor Was Brought Back to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Background<\/p>\n

When Holocaust survivor Felix Goldberg spoke at the Yom HaShoah ceremony in the year 2000, I was in the audience. Alas, the synagogue did not record his moving testimony. (I later learned that the Goldberg family did have a video recording) But since I did not yet have that recording, I wondered if his voice could be recreated using AI (artificial intelligence).<\/p>\n

Searching the web, I identified a qualified company<\/a> that I learned later was based in Kviv, Ukraine.\u00a0 A representative was fascinated by my request: could they recreate a Holocaust survivor’s voice, using available assets.\u00a0 The answer was yes. They requested that I send any previously recorded video. I had two: testimony he had previously given in the early 1990’s by South Carolina ETV<\/a> AND another video, recorded in the late 1990’s by a representative of the Shoah Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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After receiving and reviewing these two assets, the company requested that I record someone (I hired an actor) reading
\nFelix’s original 2000 Yom HaShoah speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nActor Paul Kaufmann records the speech<\/p>\n

That audio recording was then sent to the company. At this stage the company asked that the family members sign an agreement, which allowed them to proceed, which they did.<\/p>\n

After several weeks, I received the “voice clone” of Felix Goldberg<\/a>. To my ears, it is not exactly him, but it’s close.
\nI invited the family members to listen as well.<\/p>\n

And for those who wish to watch\/listen to the original speech<\/a>, as it was captured that day, digitized, it is here as well.<\/p>\n

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\nFrame grab from the 2000 speech<\/p>\n

My thanks go to Respeecher, and the Goldberg family. It could not have been accomplished without you.<\/p>\n

The Felix Goldberg story, along with that of his wife Bluma, is captured in a new book:
\nWE SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST: THE BLUMA & FELIX GOLDBERG STORY available everywhere books are sold.<\/a>
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