Radiohead's "Fitter Happier" with a Modern Speech Synthesis Engine

by tmshapland on 3/19/2025, 10:48:13 PM with 2 comments

  • by tmshapland on 3/19/2025, 10:48:13 PM

    For Radiohead’s 1997 ‘Fitter Happier’, Thom Yorke used the MacInTalk speech engine’s ‘Fred’ voice to produce the vocals. We updated the vocals with ElevenLabs modern speech synthesis.

    Here’s a link to the code.

    https://github.com/Canonical-AI-Inc/canonical-voiceover

  • by redeux on 3/19/2025, 11:26:24 PM

    I guess it's okay(ish) marketing. It would have been better to hear them together, but it also misses the point and takes a piece of art and turns it into something bland and uninspiring.