15.ai

Real-time text-to-speech AI tool 15 (software engineer) 15.ai 15 (software engineer) (3rd nomination) October 2026 April 2025 15.ai 15chill.png 15's ponysona used as the logo 15dev interface_2025.png Screenshot on May 2025 15 15 No None 2020 03 02 Artificial intelligence speech synthesis generative artificial intelligenceDataetisk Råd 2025 14Niraula Shotande El Naqa 2025 https://15.dev (formerly https://15.ai) English Defunct 2026 05 28 15.ai was a free, non-commercial web application and research project that used artificial intelligence to generate text-to-speech voices of fictional characters from popular media. Created by a pseudonymous artificial intelligence researcher known as 15, who began developing the technology as a freshman during their undergraduate research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the application allowed users to make characters from video games, television shows, and movies speak custom text with emotional inflections. The platform was able to generate convincing voice output using minimal training data; the name "15.ai" referenced the creator's statement that a voice could be cloned with just 15 seconds of audio. Described by AI researchers as unusually advanced for its time, with its voice synthesis outperforming contemporary models, 15.ai was one of the first mainstream applications of generative artificial intelligence during the initial stages of the AI boom. Launched in March 2020, 15.ai became an international Internet phenomenon in early 2021 when content utilizing it went viral on social media and quickly gained widespread use among Internet fandoms, such as the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Team Fortress 2, and SpongeBob SquarePants fandoms. The service featured emotional context through emojis, precise pronunciation control, and multi-speaker capabilities. Critics praised 15.ai's accessibility and emotional control but criticized its technical limitations in prosody options and non-English language support, with mixed results depending on character complexity. 15.ai is credited as the first platform to popularize AI voice cloning in memes and content creation.memes In particular, it has been credited as such by the following: Rock Paper Shotgun,Morton 2021: "Machine learning is absolutely fascinating and yet I mostly just enjoy when people use impressive tech to create weird skits and memes. That's exactly what everyone appears to be doing with an extremely impressive machine-learning tool that lets you type in text for various characters to say out loud. [...] It's made possible by the text to speech algorithm 15.ai that studies clips of characters and uses deep-learning to make those characters say whatever the heck you want." Clubic,Lamorlette 2021a: "Vous avez toujours rêvé de faire dire n'importe quoi à vos personnages de jeux vidéo préférés (ou détestés) ? Le site 15.ai l'a fait !" (yes "Have you always dreamed of making your favorite (or hated) video game characters say anything? 15.ai has finally made it happen!") GLITCHED,Cocomello 2021: "However, back then if you wanted to create your own dialogue, it required layers of sound enhancements and tweaks. Thankfully, the world has evolved and now thanks to the 15.ai app, we can make [...] popular characters say whatever we want" United Daily News,MrSun 2021: "大家是否都曾經想像過，假如能讓自己喜歡的遊戲或是動畫角色說出自己想聽的話，不論是名字、惡搞或是經典名言，都是不少人的夢想吧。不過來到 2021 年，現在這種夢想不再是想想而已，因為有一個網站通過 AI 生成的技術"，(yes "Have you ever imagined what it would be like if your favorite game or anime characters could say exactly what you want to hear? Whether it's names, parodies, or classic quotes, this is a dream for many. However, as we enter 2021, this dream is no longer just a fantasy, because there is a website that uses AI-generated technology,") Analytics India Magazine,VK 2023: "While AI voice memes have been around in some form since '15.ai' launched in 2020, [...]" Inverse,Wright 2023: "AI voice tools used to create "audio deepfakes" have existed for years in one form or another, with 15.ai being a notable example." Speechify,Weitzman 2023: "It gained popularity because it was the first AI voice platform that featured an assortment of fictional characters from a variety of media sources" The Guardian (Nigerian newspaper),Temitope 2024: "During this period, 15.ai earned credit for single-handedly popularizing AI voice cloning—often described as 'audio deepfakes'—in memes, viral content, and fan-driven media." Independent Nigeria,Abisola 2025: "Many credit 15.ai as the first mainstream text-to-speech platform that truly made 'audio deepfakes' go viral," and Alex Irpan.Irpan 2025: "multiple startups credit 15.ai for creating the market they now compete in." Voice actors and industry professionals debated 15.ai's implications, raising concerns about employment impacts, voice-related fraud, and potential misuse. In January 2022, it was discovered that a company called Voiceverse had generated voice lines using 15.ai without attribution, promoted them as the byproduct of their own technology, and sold them as non-fungible tokens (NFT) without permission. News publications universally characterized this incident as the company having stolen from 15.ai.stolen including the following news publications: The Mary Sue,Lawrence 2022 Kotaku Australia,Innes 2022 Eurogamer,Phillips 2022 NME,Williams 2022 Muropaketti,Muropaketti 2022 Gamereactor,Groth-Anderson 2022 Web3 Is Going Just Great,White 2022 StopGame,Skorich 2022 iXBT Games,Piletsky 2022 DTF,Granger 2022 Sport.es,Baylos 2022 FZ,Myrén 2022 AI Incident Database,Sonali 2022 AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Incidents and Controversies,AIAAIC 2022 The Journal,Parker 2022 LevelUp,Rosas 2022 Stevivor,Wright 2022 PlayStation Universe,Carcasole 2022 Checkpoint Gaming,Wakelin-King 2022 Tech Times,Henry 2022 Mobidictum,Aktaş 2022 OtakuPT,Archer 2022 Gamebrott,Ifram 2022 GameGuru,Kuchkanov 2022 Shazoo,Коэн 2022 and Geek Culture,Toh 2022 The service went offline in September 2022 due to legal issues surrounding artificial intelligence and copyright. Its shutdown was followed by the emergence of commercial alternatives whose founders have acknowledged 15.ai's pioneering influence in the field of deep learning speech synthesis. On May 18, 2025, 15 launched 15.dev as the sequel to 15.ai; on May 28, 2026, 15 announced the indefinite closure of 15.dev to focus on founding Artist Alley, a fandom marketplace catered toward artists. History Background Deep learning speech synthesis#History History of speech synthesis The field of speech synthesis underwent a significant transformation with the introduction of deep learning approaches. In 2016, DeepMind's publication of the WaveNet paper marked a shift toward neural network-based speech synthesis, which enabled higher audio quality via causal convolutional neural networks. Previously, concatenative synthesis—which worked by stitching together pre-recorded segments of human speech—was the predominant method for generating artificial speech, but it often produced robotic-sounding results at the boundaries of sentences.Barakat Turk Demiroglu 2024 In 2018, Google AI's Tacotron 2 showed that neural networks could produce highly natural speech synthesis but required substantial training data (typically tens of hours of audio) to achieve acceptable quality. When trained on two hours of training data, the output quality degraded while still being able to maintain intelligible speech; with 24 minutes of training data, Tacotron 2 failed to produce intelligible speech.Google 2018 The same year saw the emergence of HiFi-GAN, a generative adversarial network (GAN)-based vocoder that improved the efficiency of waveform generation while producing high-fidelity speech,Kong Kim Bae 2020 followed by Glow-TTS, which introduced a flow-based approach that allowed for both fast inference and voice style transfer capabilities.Kim Kim Kong Yoon 2020 Chinese tech companies like Baidu and ByteDance also made contributions to the field by developing breakthroughs that further advanced the technology.Temitope 2024 2016–2020: Conception and development thumb|left|upright=0.6|15 at Everfree Northwest in 2025 15.ai was conceived in 2016 as a research project in deep learning speech synthesis by a developer known as 15 (at the age of 18Abisola 2025) during their freshman year at MIT as part of its Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.Chandraseta 2021 Li 2021 Temitope 2024 15 was inspired by DeepMind's WaveNet paper, with development continuing through their studies as Google AI released Tacotron 2 the following year. By 2019, they had demonstrated at MIT their ability to replicate WaveNet and Tacotron 2's results using 75% less training data than previously required.Temitope 2024 By 2020, 15 had demonstrated the ability to clone a voice using 15 seconds of audio data.Bukingolts 2025 The name "15.ai" is a reference to 15's statement that a voice can be perfectly cloned with as little as 15 seconds of data.Phillips 2022 Temitope 2024 Abisola 2025 15 had originally planned to pursue a PhD based on their undergraduate research, but opted to work in the tech industry instead after their startup was accepted into the Y Combinator accelerator in 2019. After their departure in early 2020, 15 returned to their voice synthesis research and began implementing it as a web application. According to a post on X from 15, instead of using conventional voice datasets like LJSpeech that contained simple, monotone recordings, they sought out more challenging voice samples that could demonstrate the model's ability to handle complex speech patterns and emotional undertones.The past and future of 15.ai https://x.com/fifteenai/status/1865439846744871044 fifteenai 1865439846744871044 Twitter December 19, 2024 December 8, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20241208035548/https://x.com/fifteenai/status/1865439846744871044 During this phase, 15 discovered the Pony Preservation Project, a collaborative project started by :/mlp/, the My Little Pony board on 4chan.Branwen 2020 MacKinlay 2026 Contributors of the project had manually trimmed, denoised, transcribed, and emotion-tagged thousands of voice lines from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and had compiled them into a dataset that provided ideal training material for 15.ai.Branwen 2020 Temitope 2024 MacKinlay 2026 2020–2022: Release and operation [...] The website has multiple purposes. It serves as a proof of concept of a platform that allows anyone to create content, even if they can't hire someone to voice their projects. It also demonstrates the progress of my research in a far more engaging manner – by being able to use the actual model, you can discover things about it that even I wasn't aware of (such as getting characters to make gasping noises or moans by placing commas in between certain phonemes). It also doesn't let me get away with picking and choosing the best results and showing off only the ones that work [...] Being able to interact with the model with no filter allows the user to judge exactly how good the current work is at face value. 15 Hacker NewsHacker News 2022 right 400px Derpy Hooves reciting the FitnessGram PACER test introduction in a neutral emotionhttps://listnr.ai/15-ai Examples 2026-09-18 2026-09-18 speech Derpy hooves neutral 1747377367364 variation0.wav Variation #1 Derpy hooves neutral 1747377367929 variation1.wav Variation #2 Derpy hooves neutral 1747377368356 variation2.wav Variation #3 15.ai was released on March 2, 2020 as a free and non-commercial web application that did not require user registration to use, but did require the user to accept its terms of service before proceeding.Innes 2022 At the time of its launch, the platform had a limited selection of available characters, including those from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Team Fortress 2.Ng 2020 Users were permitted to create any content with the synthesized voices under two conditions: they had to properly credit 15.ai by including "15.ai" in any posts, videos, or projects using the generated audio;Kurosawa 2021 and they were prohibited from mixing 15.ai outputs with other text-to-speech outputs in the same work to prevent misrepresentation of the technology's capabilities.About https://fifteen.ai/about 15.ai December 23, 2024 March 2, 2020 Official website fifteen.ai-2020b On March 8, 2020, Tyler McVicker of Valve News Network uploaded a YouTube video showcasing 15.ai.Make GLaDOS Say ANYTHING - 15.ai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVGV0l7O6PI Valve News Network January 8, 2026 March 8, 2020 English More voices were added to the website in the following months. In late 2020, 15 implemented a multi-speaker embedding in the deep neural network, which enabled the simultaneous training of multiple voices.Temitope 2024 Following this, the website's roster expanded from eight to over fifty characters.Abisola 2025 In addition, this implementation allowed the deep learning model to recognize common emotional patterns across different characters, even when certain emotions were missing from the characters' training data.Kurosawa 2021 Temitope 2024 Abisola 2025 By May 2020, the site had served over 4.2 million audio files to users.Mahendra 2020 In early 2021, the application gained popularity after skits, memes, and fan content created using 15.ai went viral on Twitter, TikTok, Reddit, Twitch, Facebook, and YouTube.Ruppert 2021 Abisola 2025 At its peak, the platform incurred operational costs of 12000 United StatesTemitope 2024 Abisola 2025 per month from AWS infrastructure needed to handle millions of daily voice generations; despite receiving offers from companies to acquire 15.ai and its underlying technology, the website remained independent and was funded out of the personal previous startup earnings of the developer.Temitope 2024 2022: Voiceverse NFT controversy Voiceverse NFT plagiarism scandal Non-fungible token#Plagiarism and fraud Artificial intelligence controversies thumb|right|upright=1.2|A satirical meme representing the "right-click, save as" criticism of NFTs. Critics of Voiceverse pointed out the irony of selling ownership rights to AI voices when they themselves had stolen 15.ai's technology. On January 14, 2022, 15 discovered that a blockchain-based company called Voiceverse had generated voice lines using 15.ai, falsely showcased them on Twitter as a demonstration of their own voice technology without permission or attribution,Innes 2022 Phillips 2022 Williams 2022 White 2022 and sold them as NFTs.Sonali 2022 AIAAIC 2022 Groth-Anderson 2022 Parker 2022 Phillips 2022 Kuchkanov 2022 This came shortly after 15 had stated in December 2021 that they had no interest in incorporating NFTs into their work.Lopez 2022 Innes 2022 Piletsky 2022 A screenshot of the log files posted by 15 showed that Voiceverse had generated audio of characters from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic using 15.ai and pitched them up to make them sound unrecognizable,Phillips 2022 Innes 2022 Toh 2022 Wakelin-King 2022 Muropaketti 2022 Ifram 2022 Williams 2022 AIAAIC 2022 a violation of 15.ai's terms of service, which explicitly prohibited commercial use and required proper attribution.Innes 2022 Коэн 2022 Myrén 2022 AIAAIC 2022 When confronted with evidence, Voiceverse stated that their marketing team had used 15.ai without proper attribution while rushing to create a demo.Phillips 2022 Myrén 2022 AIAAIC 2022 In response, 15 tweeted "Go fuck yourself,"Wright 2022 Groth-Anderson 2022 Myrén 2022 Archer 2022 Williams 2022 which went viral, amassing hundreds of thousands of retweets and likes on Twitter in support of the developer.Temitope 2024 The tweets showcasing the stolen voices were subsequently deleted.Williams 2022 Troy Baker SDCC 2019 (48378614692) (cropped).jpg Troy Baker TroyBakerVA 350px January 14, 2022 I'm partnering with @VoiceverseNFT to explore ways where together we might bring new tools to new creators to make new things, and allow everyone a chance to own & invest in the IP's they create. We all have a story to tell. You can hate. Or you can create. What'll it be? Innes 2022 Enriquez 2022 Aftermath The controversy raised concerns about NFT projects, which, according to critics, were frequently associated with intellectual property theft and questionable business practices.Коэн 2022 Baylos 2022 The incident was documented in the AI Incident Database (AIID)Sonali 2022 and the AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Incidents and Controversies (AIAAIC) repository,AIAAIC 2022 and was also featured in Molly White's Web3 Is Going Just Great website.White 2022 Pavel Khibchenko of Skillbox listed the incident as an example of fraud in NFTs.Khibchenko 2022 Voice actor and YouTuber Yong Yea criticized voice NFTs for their potential impact on the voice acting industryParker 2022 and stated in a YouTube video that Voiceverse deliberately plagiarized 15.ai's superior technology to falsely market voice NFTs.Yong Yea Yong Yea Troy Baker Faces Mass Backlash For Supporting Shady AI Voice NFTs With Company That Has Stolen Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVaBVE5gj54&t=954s YouTube January 14, 2022 March 23, 2025 "This isn't just one of those things [Voiceverse] can go 'Whoopsies!' on. [They] plagiarized somebody else's work and used that as a means to falsely market the quality of [their] own products, by using somebody else's higher quality voice AI to promote [Voiceverse] for [their] own benefit." 15:54–16:13 https://web.archive.org/web/20241220161229/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVaBVE5gj54 December 20, 2024 live15:54–16:13 In a 2024 class action lawsuit filed against LOVO, Inc., the parent company of Voiceverse, court documents cited the company's prior theft of 15.ai's technology as part of the case.Paul Lehrman and Linnea Sage, et al. v. LOVO, Inc. No. 1:24-cv-03770 38 S.D.N.Y. 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20251004022134/https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Lehrman-v-Lovo-FIRST-AM-COMPLAINT.pdf 2025-10-04 live https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Lehrman-v-Lovo-FIRST-AM-COMPLAINT.pdf Separately, VoiceVerse has already been found to have stolen technology from another company. See Ule Lopez, WCCF Tech, "Voiceverse NFT Service Reportedly Uses Stolen Technology from 15ai," (Jan. 16, 2022), https://wccftech.com/voiceverse-nft-service-uses-stolen-technology-from-15ai/. Voice actor Troy Baker, who had announced his partnership with Voiceverse alongside their promotion of the stolen AI voices, faced mounting criticism for supporting an NFT project and for his confrontational announcement tone.Lawrence 2022 Innes 2022 White 2022 Wakelin-King 2022 Following continued backlash and the plagiarism revelation, Baker acknowledged that his original tweet was "antagonistic"Wright 2022 White 2022 Carcasole 2022 Enriquez 2022 and on January 31, announced that he would discontinue his partnership with Voiceverse.Parker 2022 Granger 2022 2022–2024: Inactivity In September 2022, 15.ai was taken offline.Staniszewski 2024 Temitope 2024 Eghosa 2025 In a post on Twitter, 15 suggested a future version that would better address copyright concerns from the outset.Temitope 2024 During this period of inactivity, voice AI startups continued to cite 15.ai as a major influence to the field.Temitope 2024 Irpan 2025 Y Combinator startup PlayHT called the debut of 15.ai "a breakthrough in the field of text-to-speech (TTS) and speech synthesis".Play.ht 2024 Play.ht-2024 Cliff Weitzman, the founder and CEO of Speechify, credited 15.ai for "making AI voice cloning popular for content creation by being the first [...] to feature popular existing characters from fandoms".Weitzman 2023 Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, wrote that 15.ai was transformative in the field of AI text-to-speech.Staniszewski 2024 2025–2026: Revival and indefinite closure On May 18, 2025, 15 launched 15.dev as the official sequel to 15.ai.https://15.dev/faq FAQ 2025-05-18 2025-05-18 15.dev https://web.archive.org/web/20251001235541/https://15.dev/faq 2025-10-01 livefifteenai 1924269599542968655 https://x.com/fifteenai/status/1924269599542968655 Twitter We are so back. https://15.dev Only MLP characters for now. More characters, features, and improvements will be added soon. Check Twitter and/or the Discord server (linked on the website) for updates! (Expect possible downtime as I calibrate server capacity and GPU allocations depending on how busy the website gets.) 2025-05-18 2025-05-18Eghosa 2025 Fandom news site Equestria Daily reported that the website included "almost every voiced pony in the show" with "a dropdown for various emotions you want to generate."Scotellaro 2025 On May 28, 2026, 15 announced the indefinite closure of the site due to high costs and to focus on founding Artist Alley, a fandom marketplace catered toward artists.fifteenai 2060098921582772567 I should probably mention this now, by the way: I've decided to close http://15.dev indefinitely so I can focus on Artist Alley. Features thumb|upright=1.2|right|Three AI-generated voice line variations from 15.ai showing their waveforms and respective alignment confidence scores 15.ai was non-commercial, had no advertisements, generated no revenue, and operated without requiring user registration or accounts.Williams 2022 Wright 2022 Innes 2022 Users were able to generate speech by inputting text and selecting a character voice, with optional parameters for emotional contextualizers and phonetic transcriptions. Each request produced three audio variations with distinct emotional deliveries.Ibáñez 2022 Characters available included multiple characters from Team Fortress 2 and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, including the Mane Six and Derpy Hooves; GLaDOS, Wheatley, and the Sentry Turret from the Portal series; SpongeBob SquarePants; Kyu Sugardust from HuniePop, Rise Kujikawa from Persona 4; Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane from Daria; Carl Brutananadilewski from Aqua Teen Hunger Force; Steven Universe from Steven Universe; Sans from Undertale; Madeline and multiple characters from Celeste; the Tenth Doctor from Doctor Who; the Narrator from The Stanley Parable; and HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey.Zwiezen 2021 Clayton 2021 Morton 2021 Ruppert 2021 Villalobos 2021 Furushima 2021 Kurosawa 2021 Cocomello 2021 Lamorlette 2021a Phillips 2022 Silent characters like Chell and Gordon Freeman were able to be selected and would emit silent audio files when any text was submitted.Morton 2021 遊戲 2021 Johansson-Sundelius 2021 Characters from Undertale and Celeste did not produce spoken words but instead generated their games' distinctive beeps when text was entered.遊戲 2021 thumb|upright=1.2|right|Sample emoji probability distributions generated by the DeepMoji model. These emoji distributions were displayed on 15.ai as part of its technical metrics and graphs.Ibáñez 2022 Abisola 2025 From 2020, 15.ai had generated audio at 44.1 kHz sampling rateTorkington 2020—higher than the 16 kHz standard used by most deep learning text-to-speech systems of that period. This higher fidelity created more detailed audio spectrograms and greater audio resolution with the tradeoff that imperfections in the synthesis were more noticeable.Feng 2020 15.ai processed speech using customized deep neural networks and specialized audio synthesis algorithms.Chandraseta 2021 While its underlying technology could produce 10 seconds of audio in less than 10 seconds of processing time (i.e. faster-than-real-time), the user experience often involved longer waits as the servers managed thousands of simultaneous requests, sometimes taking more than a minute to deliver results.Chandraseta 2021 Lamorlette 2021a Due to its nondeterministic design, 15.ai produced variations in its speech output.Stepanov 2024 15.ai introduced the concept of emotional contextualizers, which allowed users to specify the emotional tone of generated speech through guiding phrases.Chandraseta 2021 Temitope 2024 The emotional contextualizer functionality utilized DeepMoji to inject emotional context into synthesized speech.Bukingolts 2025 Kurosawa 2021 DeepMoji was a sentiment analysis neural network developed at the MIT Media Lab that processed emoji embeddings from 1.2 billion Twitter posts.Kurosawa 2021 If a prompt contained additional context (specified by a vertical bar), the additional context following the bar would be used as the emotional contextualizer.Chandraseta 2021: "By adding a '|' after the original sentence and providing an extra sentence, we could control what emotion the original sentence will be spoken with. In other words, 'text_1|text_2' will produce a voice line of text_1 with the emotion of text_2." For example, if the input was Today is a great day!|I'm very sad., the selected character would speak the sentence "Today is a great day!" in the emotion one would expect from someone saying the sentence "I'm very sad."Chandraseta 2021: "because it could force the bot into generating previously unknown data, such as saying 'Today is a great day' with a sad or angry emotion" 15.ai used pronunciation data from Oxford Dictionaries API, Wiktionary, and CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which uses ARPABET phonetic transcriptions. Users could input ARPABET transcriptions by enclosing phoneme strings in curly braces to correct mispronunciations.Kurosawa 2021 15.ai's interface used color-coding to indicate pronunciation certaintyKurosawa 2021 and also displayed technical metrics, graphs, and comprehensive model analytics, which had included sentiment analysis and automatic improvements to the vocoder.Abisola 2025 The platform limited its prompt to 200 characters; users could combine multiple generations for longer speech sequences.Cocomello 2021 Ruppert 2021 Later versions of 15.ai introduced multi-speaker capabilities. Rather than training separate models for each voice, 15.ai used a unified model that learned multiple voices simultaneously through speaker embeddings: numerical representations that capture each character's unique vocal characteristics.Stepanov 2024 Temitope 2024 Along with the emotional context conferred by DeepMoji, this allowed the deep learning model to learn shared patterns across different characters' emotional expressions and speaking styles, even when characters lacked examples of certain emotions in their training data.Kurosawa 2021 Temitope 2024 Fan works and applications right 300px CNN broadcast showing a viral video that used 15.ai to replace Donald Trump's Home Alone 2 cameo with the Heavy Weapons Guy from Team Fortress 2 (occurs at ~1:16 in)Clayton 2021 CNN 2021 Moos 2021 alt=CNN logo|x20px|center January 15, 2021 Fan works that used 15.ai for voice acting included skits and fan animations,Zwiezen 2021 Ruppert 2021 Kurosawa 2021 Abisola 2025 crossover content,Ruppert 2021 recreations of viral videos,Zwiezen 2021 Morton 2021 adaptations of fan fiction,Abisola 2025 music videos, and musical compositions.Abisola 2025 Team Fortress 2 content creators regularly used the platform to produce both short-form memes and complex narrative animations using Source Filmmaker.Clayton 2021 right 300px "Spy's Confession", a Source Filmmaker skit where Demoman discovers a drawing of Spy's fursonaKurosawa 2021 alt=YouTube logo|x20px|center January 15, 2021 PC Gamer showcased Team Fortress 2 characters redubbing a scene from Thomas the Tank Engine and arguing over a game of Among Us,Clayton 2021 while United Daily News showcased a remake of the Team Fortress 2 video "The Heavy Is Dead" and parodies of the viral "Lamar roasts Franklin" scene from Grand Theft Auto V.遊戲 2021 Kotaku showcased a version of the car dealership parody "Big Bill Hell's Cars" narrated by SpongeBob SquarePants,Zwiezen 2021 and Game Informer featured a Portal–Mass Effect crossover created by the author of the article herself.Ruppert 2021 AUTOMATON showcased multiple Team Fortress 2 videos made using 15.ai. One used Source Filmmaker to animate a 15.ai-generated skit in which Demoman confronts Spy after discovering a drawing of his wolf fursona. Another redubbed the card reading scene from the Team Fortress short film Expiration Date, recasting it as Spy reviewing what users had created with 15.ai and growing exasperated as every example concerned a fursona, including his own.Kurosawa 2021 Some fan creations gained mainstream attention: a viral video that replaced Donald Trump's cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York with the Heavy Weapons Guy's AI-generated voice was featured on a daytime CNN segment in January 2021.Clayton 2021 CNN 2021 Moos 2021 right 300px "Among Us Struggles", a viral Friendship is Magic–Among Us crossover animationScotellaro 2020b alt=YouTube logo|x20px|center September 21, 2020 15.ai was also regularly used within the My Little Pony fandom. In March 2020, an Equestria Daily event for generated pony voices received dozens of submissions, including episode redubs, advertisement parodies, literary recitations, song and rap covers, crossovers, and original skits.Scotellaro 2020a Later works featured by Equestria Daily included a full playthrough of the horror fan game Story of the Blanks using 15.ai voices,Scotellaro 2021 the viral Friendship is Magic–Among Us crossover animation "Among Us Struggles",Scotellaro 2020b and "The Tax Breaks", a fully voiced 17-minute fan-made episode.Scotellaro 2022 Abisola 2025 right 300px "The Tax Breaks", a 17-minute fan-made episode of Friendship Is MagicAbisola 2025 alt=YouTube logo|x20px|center May 13, 2022 Some users created virtual assistants using voices generated with 15.ai.Furushima 2021 Lamorlette 2021b In one documented project, a Portal fan used 15.ai to provide GLaDOS's voice for a customized Amazon Echo housed in a 3D printed realistic replica of the character's head, which consisted of more than 200 specially designed parts. The virtual assistant was programmed to answer selected requests with 15.ai-generated GLaDOS dialogue.Lamorlette 2021b Separately, Denfaminico Gamer reported a fan-created demonstration that combined 15.ai with the voice command software VoiceAttack to use GLaDOS as an assistant for controlling a computer.Furushima 2021 Reception Critical reception Critics described 15.ai as easy to use and generally able to convincingly replicate character voices, with occasional mixed results.Clayton 2021 Ruppert 2021 Villalobos 2021 Cocomello 2021 Liana Ruppert of Game Informer described 15.ai as "simplistically brilliant" and praised its ease of use.Ruppert 2021 Natalie Clayton of PC Gamer wrote that SpongeBob SquarePants' voice was replicated well, but described challenges in mimicking the Narrator from The Stanley Parable: "the algorithm simply can't capture Kevan Brighting's whimsically droll intonation."Clayton 2021 Zack Zwiezen of Kotaku reported that "[his] girlfriend was convinced it was a new voice line from GLaDOS' voice actor".Zwiezen 2021 Taiwanese newspaper United Daily News also highlighted 15.ai's ability to recreate GLaDOS's mechanical voice, alongside its diverse range of character voice options.遊戲 2021: "目前「15.ai」的網頁上，提供了不少的音源，[...]除了《傳送門》之外，15.ai 網站目前也支援了許多來自遊戲、電影或動畫中的人物語音，" (yes "Currently, the "15.ai" website provides a lot of audio sources. [...] In addition to "Portal", the 15.ai website currently also supports voices for many characters from games, movies or animations. Marco Cocomello of GLITCHED remarked that despite the 200-character limitation, the results "blew [him] away" when testing the app with GLaDOS's voice.Cocomello 2021 Carl Johansson-Sundelius of FZ wrote that the underlying technology of 15.ai was "impressive, to say the least", and acknowledged the technical breadth of the various models used to produce the voices.Johansson-Sundelius 2021 Chris Button of Byteside called the ability to clone a voice with only 15 seconds of data "freaky," and also described the tech behind it as "impressive."Button 2021 Robin Lamorlette of Clubic described the technology as "devilishly fun" and wrote that Twitter and YouTube were filled with creative content from users experimenting with the tool.Lamorlette 2021a: "On peut donc retrouver sur ces réseaux de nombreux exemples de ce que peut donner le mélange entre un esprit créatif et une technologie aussi efficace que diablement amusante." (yes "These social networks are therefore full of examples of what can be achieved by combining a creative mind with technology that is as effective as it is devilishly fun.") The platform's voice generation capabilities were regularly featured on Equestria Daily with documented updates, fan creations, and additions of new character voices. In a post introducing new character additions to 15.ai, Equestria Daily'''s founder Shaun Scotellaro wrote that "some of [the voices] aren't great due to the lack of samples to draw from, but many are really impressive still anyway."Scotellaro 2020a Chinese My Little Pony fan site EquestriaCN also documented 15.ai's development and its updates, though they criticized some of its bugs and long queue wait times.www.equestriacn.com 2021 www.equestriacn.com Peter Paltridge of Anime Superhero News opined that "voice synthesis has evolved to the point where the more expensive efforts are nearly indistinguishable from actual human speech," but also stated that "In some ways, SAM is still more advanced than this. It was possible to affect SAM's inflections by using special characters, as well as change his pitch at will. With 15.ai, you're at the mercy of whatever random inflections you get."Paltridge 2021 Conversely, Lauren Morton of Rock, Paper, Shotgun praised the depth of pronunciation control—"if you're willing to get into the nitty gritty of it".Morton 2021 Similarly, Eugenio Moto of Qore.com wrote that "the most experienced of users can change parameters like the stress or the tone."Moto 2021: "Incluso, los más clavados pueden cambiar algunos parámetros como la intencionalidad o el tono." (yes "Actually, the most experienced of users can change some parameters like the stress or tone.") Spanish author Álvaro Ibáñez wrote in Microsiervos that he found the rhythm of the AI-generated voices "interesting" and that 15.ai was able to adapt its delivery based on the text's meaning.Ibáñez 2022: "Personalmente encontré interesantes las pausas y el ritmo y que ciertamente se nota que según el contenido del texto se «interpreta» el resultado según lo que se intenta transmitir." (yes "Personally, I found the pauses and rhythm interesting, and that it is certainly noticeable that depending on the content of the text, the result is 'interpreted' according to what is being trying to convey.") Amaya Tomanová of Letem světem Applem described 15.ai's voice generation as "lightning fast" and highlighted the ability to use emojis as part of the prompt, also calling it "interesting".Tomanová 2022 Multiple reporters criticized the lack of non-English language support. Takayuki Furushima of Den Fami Nico Gamer highlighted the "smooth pronunciations", and Yuki Kurosawa of AUTOMATON wrote that its "rich emotional expression" was a major feature; both Japanese authors mentioned the lack of Japanese-language support. Furushima 2021: 日本語入力には対応していないが、ローマ字入力でもなんとなくそれっぽい発音になる。; 15.aiはテキスト読み上げサービスだが、特筆すべきはそのなめらかな発音と、ゲームに登場するキャラクター音声を再現している点だ。 (yes It does not support Japanese input, but even if you input using romaji, it will somehow give you a similar pronunciation.; 15.ai is a text-to-speech service, but what makes it particularly noteworthy is its smooth pronunciation and the fact that it reproduces the voices of characters that appear in games.) Kurosawa 2021: "もうひとつ15.aiの大きな特徴として挙げられるのが、豊かな感情表現だ" (yes "Another major feature of 15.ai is its rich emotional expression.") Kurosawa 2021: "英語版ボイスのみなので注意" (yes "Please note that this is an English voice only version.") Renan do Prado of Arkade and José Villalobos of LaPS4 remarked that while users could create amusing results in Portuguese and Spanish respectively, the generation performed best in English. do Prado 2021: "Obviamente o programa funciona no idioma inglês, mas dá pra gerar umas frases bem emboladas e engraças em português, estilo aqueles memes usando vozes em outros idiomas falando em português." (yes "Obviously, the program works in English, but you can generate some really confusing and funny sentences in Portuguese, like those memes using voices in other languages speaking Portuguese.") Villalobos 2021: "En este sentido, en las últimas horas se ha hecho popular un sitio web que emula la voz de GlaDOS para que diga todas las palabras que quieras, siempre y cuando estén en inglés, aunque puedes escribir algo en español e intentará pronunciarlo, pero no lo hará correctamente." (yes "In this sense, in recent hours a website has become popular that emulates the voice of GlaDOS so that it says all the words you want, as long as they are in English, although you can write something in Spanish and it will try to pronounce it, but it will not do it correctly.") Chinese gaming news website GamerSky called the app "interesting", but also criticized the word count limit of the text and the occasional lack of intonations. GamerSky 2021: "虽然AI的声音缺少了些抑扬顿挫，不过效果也还算有趣。" (yes "Although the AI's voice lacks some intonation, the effect is still interesting.") GamerSky 2021: "目前15.ai提供的角色选项较少，由于文本的字数限制，生成的语音也相对较短" (yes "Currently, 15.ai provides relatively few character options, and due to the word limit of the text, the generated voice is relatively short.") Yahoo! News Taiwan reported that "GLaDOS in Portal can pronounce lines nearly perfectly", but also criticized that "there are still many imperfections, such as word limit and tone control, which are still a little weird in some words."MrSun 2021: "的 GLaDOS 也能完美的唸出任何台詞。當然網站也補充目前還有很多不完美的地方，像是字數限制、語氣控制在某些話上還是略有怪異，但只要肯花時間，也能像是其他網友一樣，通過剪輯來完成有趣的創作，" (yes "Even GLaDOS in "Portal" can perfectly recite any lines. Of course, the website also added that there are still many imperfections, such as word limit and tone control, which are still a bit weird in some words, but as long as you are willing to spend time, you can also complete interesting creations through editing like other netizens.") Technical reception thumb|upright=1.2|right|An example of a conversion of the text "daisy bell" into speech, starting from English orthography. English words are parsed as a string of ARPABET phonemes, then is passed through a pitch predictor and a mel-spectrogram generator to generate audio. AI researchers and practitioners provided more in-depth analysis of 15.ai's capabilities and limitations compared to other text-to-speech technologies of the time. Google DeepMind senior research scientist Alex Irpan wrote that when 15.ai launched in 2020, it was "arguably the highest quality voice generation model in the world" and superior to models developed by Google AI.Irpan 2025 In their explanation for why they plagiarized from 15.ai, Voiceverse wrote that "the best voice [their marketing team] could find was not [theirs] but 15.ai['s]".Kamen 2022 Rionaldi Chandraseta of Towards Data Science wrote that voice models trained on larger datasets created more convincing output with better phrasing and natural pauses, particularly for extended text.Chandraseta 2021 Parth Mahendra of AI Daily wrote that while the system "does a good job at accurately replicating most basic words," it struggled with more complex terms, noting that characters would "absolutely butcher the pronunciation" of certain words.Mahendra 2020 Dan Ruta, the creator of a downloadable voice AI tool called xVASynth, wrote that in comparison, cloud-based tools like 15.ai had the benefit of being accessible on any device.Ewins 2021 Economist and AI commentator Tyler Cowen named 15.ai among examples of underrated talent in AI and machine learning.Cowen 2022 Chinese AI researchers also offered various technical assessments. Machine learning professor Yongqiang Li wrote that 15.ai "perfectly preserves the rhythm and characteristics of the speaker," and remarked that the application was still free despite having 5,000 people generating voices concurrently at the time of writing.Li 2021: "完美保留了发音人的韵律和特色，" (yes: "perfectly preserves the rhythm and characteristics of the speaker,") Li 2021: "该网站的访问量为在线任务差不多5000以上，而且目前完全免费，" (yes: "The number of requests to the website is more than 5,000 tasks, and it is still currently completely free.") Bai Feng of XinZhiYuan on QQ News highlighted the technical achievement of 15.ai's high-quality output despite using minimal training data and wrote that it was of significantly higher quality than typical deep learning text-to-speech implementations. Feng also acknowledged that while some pronunciation errors occurred due to the limited training data, it was understandable given that contemporary deep learning models typically required 40 or more hours of audio. Feng 2020: "该工具生成的音频文件的采样率为 44100 Hz，而大多数基于深度学习的文本转语音实现，所使用的采样率为16,000 Hz。所以用它产生的音频，声谱会更详细（更高质量的音频），同时缺陷也更明显。" (yes "The audio files generated by this tool have a sampling rate of 44100 Hz, while most deep learning-based text-to-speech implementations use a sampling rate of 16,000 Hz. Therefore, the audio generated by it will have a more detailed sound spectrum (higher quality audio), but the defects will be more obvious.") Feng 2020: "当然在这么小的语料上训练的模型也是有缺陷的，有些单词可能发音不准确，其实这也很好理解，即使是人，在遇到生词的时候也不一定能准确发音，而传统的深度模型通常有 40 个小时或者更多的语料，所以错误率会低一些。" (yes "Of course, the model trained on such a small corpus is also flawed, and some words may not be pronounced correctly . In fact, this is easy to understand. Even humans may not be able to pronounce new words accurately when they encounter them. Traditional deep models usually have 40 hours or more of corpus, so the error rate will be lower.") Ji Yunyo of NetEase News called the technology behind 15.ai "remarkably efficient" but also criticized its emotional limitations, writing that the emotional expression was relatively "neutral" and that "extreme" emotions couldn't be properly synthesized, making it less suitable for not safe for work applications.Ji 2021: "但是由于情绪表现只能联系上下文进行自动识别，导致这些语音在情感表达上比较"中庸"，一些"极端"的情绪无法通过语音合成正常表达，[...]距离其被正式用于某些NSFW的同人作品，还有很长的路要走。" (yes "the emotional expression can only be automatically recognized in the context, which makes these voices relatively "neutral" in emotional expression. Some "extreme" emotions cannot be expressed normally through voice synthesis. [...] it still has a long way to go before it can be officially used in some NSFW fan works.") Ji also wrote that while many deepfake videos required creators to extract and edit material from hours of original content for very short results, 15.ai could achieve similar or better effects with only a few dozen minutes of training data per character.Ji 2021: "网友在油管上看到的许多"深度伪造"视频，都依赖视频创作者从原本数小时的数据资料里进行提取编辑，最终才能制作非常简短的内容，并且呈现效果还很一般。而15.ai的开发者表示，自己的这项技术可以轻松实现那些视频效果（事实上15.ai的许多角色进行深度学习的数据时长只有几十分钟）。" (yes "Many of the "deep fake" videos that netizens see on YouTube rely on video creators to extract and edit hours of data to produce very short content, and the presentation effect is still very average. The developers of 15.ai said that their technology can easily achieve those video effects (in fact, the data for deep learning of many characters of 15.ai is only tens of minutes long).") Reactions from voice actors of featured characters thumb|upright=1.5|Ellen McLain (voice of GLaDOS in Portal) and John Patrick Lowrie (voice of the Sniper in Team Fortress 2) were interviewed on The VŌC Podcast in 2021 about their perspectives on 15.ai and AI voice synthesis technology. Some voice actors whose characters appeared on 15.ai have publicly shared their thoughts about the platform. In an April 2021 interview, John Patrick Lowrie—who voices the Sniper in Team Fortress 2—said that he had discovered 15.ai when a prospective intern showed him a skit she had created using AI voices of the Team Fortress 2 characters.0:51:50 Lowrie commented: "The technology still has a long way to go before you really believe that these are just human beings, but I was impressed by how much [15.ai] could do. [...] You certainly don't get the delivery that you get from an actual person who's analyzed the scene, [...] but I do think that as a fan source—for people wanting to put together mods and stuff like that—that it could be fun for fans to use the voices of characters they like."0:53:12 He drew an analogy to synthesized music, adding: "If you want the sound of a choir, and you want the sound of an orchestra, and you have the money, you hire a choir and an orchestra. And if you don't have the money, you have something that sounds pretty nice; but it's not the same as a choir and an orchestra."The VŌC Podcast // John Patrick Lowrie & Ellen McLain Interview (The voices of GLaDOS and Sniper) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlAmqIAwxh8&t=3109s Podcast The VŌC Podcast January 15, 2025 April 11, 2021 English 0:51:50–1:01:25 https://web.archive.org/web/20250820151516/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlAmqIAwxh8 live 2025-08-201:01:10 In a 2021 live broadcast on his Twitch channel, Nathan Vetterlein—the voice actor of the Scout from Team Fortress 2—listened to an AI recreation of his character's voice and commented: "It's interesting; it's all right. There's some stuff in there".Nate listens to his AI self https://www.twitch.tv/chiliofdestiny/clip/DistinctTenuousOkapiAMPEnergy Twitch January 10, 2021 January 21, 2025 Nathan Vetterlein Nathan Vetterlein Ethical concerns Deepfake#Concerns and countermeasures Other voice actors had mixed reactions to 15.ai's capabilities. While some industry professionals acknowledged the technical innovation, others raised concerns about the technology's implications for their profession.Parker 2022 Temitope 2024 When voice actor Troy Baker announced his partnership with Voiceverse NFT, which had misappropriated 15.ai's technology, critics raised concerns about automated voice acting's potential reduction of employment opportunities for voice actors, risk of voice impersonation, and potential misuse in explicit content.Innes 2022 Wakelin-King 2022 Ng 2020 Parker 2022 Skorich 2022 Piletsky 2022 Enriquez 2022 Ruby Innes of Kotaku Australia wrote that "this practice could potentially put voice actors out of work considering you could just use their AI voice rather than getting them to voice act for a project and paying them."Innes 2022 In her coverage of the Voiceverse controversy, Edith Wakelin-King of Checkpoint Gaming raised the concern that "this kind of technology has the potential to push voice actors out of work if it becomes easier and cheaper to use AI voices instead of working with the actor directly."Wakelin-King 2022 While 15.ai limited its scope to fictional characters and did not reproduce voices of real people or celebrities,Kurosawa 2021 computer scientist Andrew Ng commented that similar technology could be used to do so, including for nefarious purposes.Ng 2020 In his 2020 assessment of 15.ai, Ng outlined potential "enormously productive" applications of voice cloning, such as revolutionizing the use of virtual actors in Hollywood, enabling voice actors to participate in more cartoon and audiobook productions, and allowing content creators to use synthetic celebrity voices to narrate their scripts.Ng 2020 However, he also cautioned that synthesizing a human's voice without consent raises ethical concerns and potential legal issues, and further warned that it could be maliciously exploited to impersonate private individuals.Ng 2020 Legacy 15.ai was one of the first mainstream applications of generative artificial intelligenceRuiz Pattenhouse Shell Dallas 2025Czornik 2025 and was the first mainstream application of audio deepfake technology.Çoruh 2025Bolocan Savciuc 2025 15.ai is credited with popularizing AI voice cloning in Internet memes and content creation,memes particularly through its ability to generate convincing character voices in real time without requiring extensive technical expertise.Ruppert 2021 Morton 2021 The platform's impact was especially large in fan communities, such as the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Portal, Team Fortress 2, and SpongeBob SquarePants'' fandoms, where it enabled the creation of viral content that garnered millions of views on social media.遊戲 2021 Kurosawa 2021 Morton 2021 Temitope 2024 The popularity and success of 15.ai made its creator, 15, a prominent figure. Google DeepMind senior research scientist Alex Irpan described 15 as one of the most famous people in the brony fandom (a status known as being "horse famous" in the vernacular of the brony fandom), attributing this status to 15.ai's high quality, its free availability, and 15's willingness to personally cover thousands of dollars in monthly operating costs.Irpan 2025 Its influence since its launch has been publicly recognized, with commercial alternatives like ElevenLabswhich uses "11.ai" as a legal byname for its web domainElevenLabs 2024b ElevenLabs-2024b and Speechify emerging to fill the void after its initial shutdown.Staniszewski 2024 Play.ht 2024 Play.ht-2024 Weitzman 2023 Multiple contemporary generative voice AI companies have acknowledged 15.ai's pioneering role.Irpan 2025 15.ai established technical precedents that influenced subsequent developments in AI voice synthesis and was one of the most serious and consequential results of early experimentation with incorporating AI into voice synthesis.Makowiec 2024 Its integration of DeepMoji for emotional analysis demonstrated the viability of incorporating sentiment-aware speech generation,Osman 2022 while its support for ARPABET phonetic transcriptions set a standard for precise pronunciation control in public-facing voice synthesis tools.Temitope 2024 The platform's multi-speaker model, which enabled simultaneous training of diverse character voices, allowed the system to recognize emotional patterns across different voices even when certain emotions were absent from individual character training sets.Kurosawa 2021 Temitope 2024 15.ai also contributed to the reduction of training data requirements for speech synthesis. Contemporary models like Tacotron 2 required tens of hours of audio to produce acceptable results and failed to generate intelligible speech with less than 24 minutes of training data. 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AI Literacy in PK-12 Education Implementing AI Literacy Across Learning Environments: A Series of Briefs 2025 20 10.51388/20.500.12265/269 https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED678838.pdf September 2, 2026 20.500.12265/269 Digital Promise ED678838 Stepanov Valentyn Yaroslavovych 2024 Метод кодування аудіосигналів для підвищення ефективності фазових вокодерів Audio Coding Method to Improve the Efficiency of Phase Vocoders Master's Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University Ternopil, Ukraine https://elartu.tntu.edu.ua/bitstream/lib/48156/1/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%92_%D0%AF_%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%BC-61_%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%83.pdf uk August 31, 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260127030649/https://elartu.tntu.edu.ua/bitstream/lib/48156/1/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%92_%D0%AF_%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%BC-61_%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%83.pdf January 27, 2026 live News and web sources 3 Abisola Shojobi January 3, 2025 The MIT Project That Paved Way For Modern Voice AI https://independent.ng/the-mit-project-that-paved-way-for-modern-voice-ai/ live February 27, 2025 Independent February 27, 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250227050616/https://independent.ng/the-mit-project-that-paved-way-for-modern-voice-ai/ Aktaş Utku January 19, 2022 https://mobidictum.com/troy-baker-nft-firm-using-voice-lines-from-another-service/ Troy Baker-backed NFT firm admitted using voice lines from another service without permission March 1, 2025 Mobidictum https://web.archive.org/web/20240614053358/https://mobidictum.com/troy-baker-nft-firm-using-voice-lines-from-another-service/ June 14, 2024 live January 2022 https://www.aiaaic.org/aiaaic-repository/ai-algorithmic-and-automation-incidents/voiceverse-nft-voice-theft Voiceverse NFT caught plagiarising voice lines from AI service 15.ai live October 3, 2025 AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Incidents and Controversies https://web.archive.org/web/20251004023459/https://www.aiaaic.org/aiaaic-repository/ai-algorithmic-and-automation-incidents/voiceverse-nft-voice-theft October 4, 2025 AIAAIC 2022 Archer Helder January 24, 2022 https://www.otakupt.com/jogos/grupo-nft-do-ator-de-voz-de-the-last-of-us-apanhado-a-roubar-vozes-de-outro-servico/ Grupo NFT do ator de voz de The Last of Us apanhado a roubar vozes de outro serviço live September 13, 2025 OtakuPT https://web.archive.org/web/20220124225233/https://www.otakupt.com/jogos/grupo-nft-do-ator-de-voz-de-the-last-of-us-apanhado-a-roubar-vozes-de-outro-servico/ January 24, 2022 pt The Last of Us Voice Actor NFT Group Caught Stealing Voices from Another Service Baylos Ramón January 17, 2022 La compañía de NFTs que se alió con el actor de voz de Joel de The Last of Us la ha liado bastante parda NFT Company Partnered with Voice Actor of Joel From The Last of Us Has Really Messed Up https://areajugones.sport.es/videojuegos/la-compania-de-nfts-que-se-alio-con-el-actor-de-voz-de-joel-de-the-last-of-us-la-ha-liado-bastante-parda/ March 25, 2025 Sport.es https://web.archive.org/web/20250123203933/https://areajugones.sport.es/videojuegos/la-compania-de-nfts-que-se-alio-con-el-actor-de-voz-de-joel-de-the-last-of-us-la-ha-liado-bastante-parda/ January 23, 2025 es live https://gwern.net/doc/anime/my-little-pony/index#fifteen-kun-project-2020-section "15.ai ", Fifteen-kun & Project 2020 Gwern Branwen 2020 Gwern.net October 14, 2025 Button Chris January 19, 2021 Make GLaDOS, SpongeBob and other friends say what you want with this AI text-to-speech tool https://www.byteside.com/2021/01/15-ai-deepmoji-glados-spongebob-characters-ai-text-to-speech/ live December 18, 2024 Byteside June 25, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240625180514/https://www.byteside.com/2021/01/15-ai-deepmoji-glados-spongebob-characters-ai-text-to-speech/ Cabibi-Wilkin Lily January 26, 2022 NFTs Are Bad. 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