Creating word recordings with AI: learning where to cut
It’s wild what you can do when you have AI at your side.It was fun to make and fun to play.The audio was more uneven. Others had lost their beginning, stopped too early, or brought a fragment of the preceding word along with them. For a game where the player has to work out what they heard, that is a fairly central problem.I wanted a WAV file of each word, spoken clearly from beginning to end.The voicesUsing audio.cpp, I created AI voices for English, French, and Norwegian.Initially I used OmniVoice, before moving to VoxCPM2 for voice creation.
- ▪It’s wild what you can do when you have AI at your side.It was fun to make and fun to play.The audio was more uneven.
- ▪Others had lost their beginning, stopped too early, or brought a fragment of the preceding word along with them.
- ▪For a game where the player has to work out what they heard, that is a fairly central problem.I wanted a WAV file of each word, spoken clearly from beginning to end.The voicesUsing audio.cpp, I created AI voices for English, French, and Nor
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home/writing/creating word recordings with ai: learning where to cutWritingCreating word recordings with AI: learning where to cutA playful spelling game, some troublesome AI audio, and the small tools that helped me turn generated sentences into usable word recordings.Published 15 Sep 2026 ·12 min read#Ai#Audio#Text-to-Speech#ToolsOn this page ⌄The gameThe voicesCreating a voiceThe audioAdd knobsGive the word a sentenceThe problemA plausible cut can still be wrongVisualiseHear the differenceEstimate the sentence, then look nearbyChange the sentence, tooGive cleanup its own jobA second opinion, and a better listening deskLicenceToolingReferencesProjects and modelsReading and notesExamples and downloadsI dipped my toe into AI, voice cloning, and generated audio by making a spelling…
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