Wondercraft, the world’s first AI-powered creative audio platform, today unveils “Director Mode”, a feature that gives content creators unparalleled control over AI voices. This latest release turns Wondercraft’s audio editing platform into a virtual recording studio, allowing users to direct AI voice characters with precision and nuance.
Building on the success of Wondercraft’s Parrot Mode – which was released earlier this year and enabled AI voices to mimic a user’s own intonations and pronunciations – Director Mode is taking AI voice technology to new heights.
Starting today, Wondercraft users can direct performances through a chat interface; instructing AI characters to adopt specific accents, emotions, and even unique speech patterns. This advancement will enable brands leveraging AI voices to express complex emotional narratives and subtleties with greater ease.
Wondercraft’s platform leverages the latest AI innovations from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and a range of LLMs and voice models. With the launch of Director Mode, Wondercraft becomes the first audio platform to integrate OpenAI’s newest and most advanced voice model into its production studio.
Key features of Director Mode include:
Natural language interface: Give performance instructions to AI voices via a simple chat interface.
Full emotional range: Combine different emotions, moods, accents, and tones for full-range voice performances.
Endless creative possibilities: From “speak English with a strong Swedish accent” to “sound excited but you’re trying to hide it,” or combine the two. The only limit is the user’s imagination.
Oskar Serrander, co-founder at Wondercraft, comments:
“Users can now ask their Wondercraft voice characters to authentically act out their scripts: Gasp, laugh, cheer, sound insecure, sarcastic or even speak like they have a mouthful of food in a New Jersey accent. Director Mode puts you in the coveted Director’s chair with complete control of the theatrical performance when producing ads, voice-overs or content.
“With Director Mode, Wondercraft is evolving to a must-have tool in the modern marketer’s tech stack. This feature represents a big leap forward in our mission to provide fast, affordable, safe and secure pro-quality audio creation in any language for brands and creative teams.”
Director Mode works seamlessly with Wondercraft’s extensive library of voice characters and the platform’s voice cloning feature, available to Pro and Enterprise users. This combination offers virtually limitless possibilities for creating distinct, engaging audio content for advertising, video voice-overs and content.
The platform is on a mission to make high-quality audio storytelling accessible to creative storytellers, with over 60,000 creatives across more than 50 countries already leveraging the tools, including teams from leading audio platforms around the world including Amazon, Acast, DAX, Paytunes, Wondery, Audacia, Otonal and more.
About Wondercraft
Founded in mid 2023, Wondercraft is the world’s first AI-powered creative audio studio that helps brands and creative teams craft professional, studio-quality audio – for podcasts, advertising, audiobooks – in any language, simply by typing.
Dubbed “Canva for Audio” for its ability to radically simplify audio production, the Wondercraft platform features hyper-realistic AI voices, seamless music and sound mixing, a versatile AI script- and ad copy assistant, and translation quality control by 150+ human language experts.
The company was founded by former Palantir engineers Dimitris Nikolaou, and Youssef Rizk, and Oskar Serrander, former COO at Acast and executive at Spotify and iHeartmedia, and operates globally from offices in London and New York.
In February 2024, Wondercraft announced a $3m Seed round led by Will Ventures, Y Combinator, ElevenLabs, Steven Bartlett and other angels.
