A New Podcast Features Joe Rogan Chatting with Steve Jobs

The first episode of the podcast.ai series features the voices of Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs recreated with AI.

A new podcast recently released on podcast.ai gives us a unique chance to listen to the conversation between commentator, podcaster, and comedian Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs. This little spooky podcast interview became available to the audience thanks to a Dubai-based voice synthesis company Play.ht that recreated the voices of Rogan and Jobs using AI technology.

While recreating Rogan's voice seems to be a natural choice as to accurately recreate someone's voice, AI models first have to be trained on existing samples of the voice they have to clone, and there are plenty of Rogan's isolated voice samples that exist on his podcasts, it might be a little difficult to do this with Jobs' voice.

According to Play.ht, to generate the voice of Steve Jobs, the firm had to use all of Apple's former CEO's recordings they found online so that "the AI could accurately bring him back to life."

The company also noted that the text of the interview was generated by AI as well using "fine-tuned language models". During the near-20 minute podcast, fake Jobs and Rogan discuss a range of topics, including Buddhism, the issues Microsoft was having with Windows 3, and even the use of LSD.

"We wanted to push the boundaries of what is possible in current state of the art speech synthesis, we wanted to create content that can inspire others to do the same, and there was no one who inspired and impacted the technology world more than Steve Jobs, that's why in the first episode we brought his voice back to life," Play.ht wrote.

According to Play.ht co-founder Syed Hammad, the main purpose of creating podcast.ai was to demonstrate the company's AI speech tool’s capabilities. Play.ht previously already showed off several other famous voices recreated by AI including the voices of Kevin Hart, Tom Hanks, and John F. Kennedy.

Podcast.ai creators shared that a new episode featuring new topics, new hosts, and new guests will be aired each week inviting listeners to suggest their ideas on upcoming AI-generated interviews.

You can listen to the first podcast.ai episode featuring fake Steve Jobs and Joe Rogan here. Also, don't forget to join our Reddit page and our Telegram channel, follow us on Instagram and Twitter, where we share breakdowns, the latest news, awesome artworks, and more. 

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