Vocalize: training the voices of the future

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Sir Stephen Fry will walk you through a unique and personalised coaching experience, helping you refine your voice and unleash your full potential. Guiding you through vocal warm ups and a range of scripts, you’ll emerge on the other side with a voice that has never sounded so good.

But beware, Vocalize’s powerful AI vocal training may have a darker side….

Through the power of immersive storytelling, Vocalize places participants inside a playful yet unsettling experience that reveals just how easily artificial intelligence can manipulate identity and truth.

 

Sir Stephen Fry

Sir Stephen Fry comments:

VOCALIZE is a brilliant fusion of art and entertainment, revealing both the wonders and pitfalls of AI. As this technology shapes our future, it urges us to pause, reflect, and question: where are we heading and who gets to decide?

Sir Stephen Fry sits at a microphone                Vocalize at Hay Festival

Where to experience Vocalize

Vocalize appeared at the Hay Festival from 22 May 1 1 June.

In this version, users were able to step into a soundproof booth to hear actor Stephen Fry and his “vocal double” guide participants through a voiceover training session.

The actor said Vocalize

“is a brilliant fusion of art and entertainment, revealing both the wonders and pitfalls of AI”, said Fry. “As this technology shapes our future, it urges us to pause, reflect, and question: where are we heading and who gets to decide?”

Find out more about it on The Guardian website.

 

Vocalise also appeared at  CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 13-24, 2024.

 

About the artists

Francesca Panetta is Director of the AKO Storytelling Institue at UAL and a mulit-award winning digital artist using experimental storytelling to create works with social impact.

Halsey Burgund is a media artist who uses modern technologies – from smartphones to AI- alongside fundamentally human ‘technologies’, primarily language, music and the spoken voice, to explore their aesthetic and societal impacts.

Shehani Fernando is an immersive creator who has directed a number of award-winning VR experiences specalising in documentary.

 

“We wanted audiences to feel what manipulation truly means”, said Vocalize’s creators. “When the viewer becomes the protagonist, the boundary between truth and fabrication starts to dissolve… As artists, we’re drawn to exploring AI not only to unlock its creative potential, but also to confront the risks and ethical dilemmas it presents.”