Google’s new AI tool can add sound to silent videos

The craziest AI development I've seen all year is Microsoft's VASA-1 technology. The company developed AI models that can transform a single image of a person with an audio file into a moving video of that person speaking. The demos were mindblowing, though VASA-1 isn't available as a commercial product. It might never be, as people can easily abuse this kind of AI tool.

VASA-1 was shown off in mid-April. Now, almost two months later, Google Deepmind unveiled a similar AI technology. It doesn't have a commercial name, with Google describing it as video-to-audio (V2A) technology. That also means it's not a commercial AI product you can try out yourself.

V2A lets you generate audio from a single text prompt to match a silent video clip. Google's demos are mind-blowing.

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