This is my voice.
And this is my voice with the Kanye West AI voice filter.
And for the next 30 days, I'm going to pretend to be him and see if I can make money.
Will I drop a fake album?
Sneak into a Yeezy meeting?
Will I get sued?
Let's find out.
To become Kanye West, I first need to clone his voice.
You might've come across on social media, him singing.
Or.
Or.
All of these song covers were made using an AI voice cloning tool called Sovitz SVC.
Let's try it out.
To begin, I need an audio file to convert.
This could be an acapella of a song or a simple voice recording like.
Yo, it's Kanye West, and the only thing I love more than myself is being subscribed to Jensen Tung.
I'm now ready to use Sovitz SVC.
I'll start by clicking the play button under step one, which will connect my Google account.
Once it's done, I'll press the play button under step two and wait for the green check mark.
I'll now upload my audio file by opening the file explorer on the left and dragging and dropping it in there.
Once it has completed uploading and the blue circle is gone, I'm gonna press the play button under step three, which will open up a settings menu.
This is where the magic happens.
Here, you select your audio file and a voice model to clone.
There are voice models of many different artists and public figures to choose from, which include...
It's Drizzy Drake from the 6th, Toronto.
Jeez Louise.
Chip, it's your boy, home, Jay-Z, Rockefeller Records.
It's K-Dot, Kendrick Lamar.
Everything on Earth stays on Earth.
It's Big Papa, Notorious B.I.G.
It's all good, baby, but he died.
Cowabunga, dude.
It's Bart Simpson.
Eat my shorts.
And the list goes on.
For this challenge, I'll be selecting Kanye West.
One last thing to do before I convert my audio is to head to the advanced settings tab on the right.
This is where I can adjust the output to make it sound better.
And all that's left is to convert.
It's done.
Let's take a listen.
That's pretty good.
With Kanye's voice officially cloned, it's now time to initiate my money-making scheme.
My plan is to record and leak a fake Kanye West song that apologizes for his recent antics.
In the lyrics, I'll mention a secret website.
Where I'll be selling fake Yeezy t-shirts to his diehard fans for $200 each.
TMZ will pick this all up.
I'll then send them a voice recording saying, I just wanna get back out there again, you know?
Maybe the format, Fyre Fest 2.
The Fyre Fest 2 team will hear about it and reach out, asking me to headline.
I'll demand 5 million, which they'll pay, and then pocket all the money that I earned and flee to Bermuda.
Triangle.
Okay, okay, I'm joking.
I don't wanna get sued or arrested for fraud.
For my real business plan.
I followed this template and brainstormed what business opportunities I had with Kanye's voice, as well as a target market marketing plan and strategy to make a profit.
Eventually, I landed on an idea.
I'm gonna sell Kanye West voiceover and rap impressions on Fiverr.
Yo, what's up?
It's your boy Kanye West straight from Shocktown.
I'm here on Fiverr.
You can hire me to bring my genius voice to your next project, whether it's a video song or birthday message.
I'll give you that signature, Yeezy sound, an undeniable presence that made me the greatest artist of all time.
You ain't got the answer, Sway.
If you want to take your project to the next level, go with the best.
Go with Kanye West.
Let's make a masterpiece.
Peace.
Not a bad demo, right?
My pricing will start at $5 and will increase based on the number of words ordered.
Hopefully, this gig will get some buyers.
By the way, if you're thinking of starting your own business or side hustle in the future, I've put the business plan template that I used earlier in the description for you to download for free.
It's super helpful and covers everything you need to know before starting anything.
This free template was made by HubSpot, which is today's video sponsor.
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Big thanks to them for making it all possible.
It's been a little under a week since I started and, to my surprise, I've been getting quite a few inquiries.
One guy messaged me asking for a sample of Kanye saying, Hello, my friend.
I've been looking for you the whole day and my belly is pretty full with lots of cheeseburgers.
Funny, but I'm not doing any free samples, especially since I just got my first order.
This customer wants me to rap lyrics celebrating a healthcare program for veterans in the style of Tupac's California Love.
I'm no rapper, but I can try.
Let's do it.
Now let me welcome everybody to ICI in the West.
A team that leads nation heroes and providers and press.
Camera for our veterans is what we do best.
Making sure they get the care that's above the rest.
We in this.
From Diego to the Bay, your city is the bomb.
If your city making veterans stay, put up a finger if you feel the same way.
RCI, putting it down for California.
Oh, she completed the order.
We even got a five-star review.
I love the work.
Wrap sounded just like Kanye.
Seller was professional and responsive.
Highly recommend.
And what?
She left me a $35 tip.
Oh my God.
We are off to a good start.
That's...
Some California love right there.
Speaking of California love, you might have noticed that I didn't play its official instrumental while rapping.
That's because of copyright.
But what about AI voices?
Are they even legal?
As copyright law stands in the US right now, a person's voice, style or flow cannot be protected by copyright and is therefore not illegal to copy.
That's why it's not illegal for a comedian to do voice impressions or an artist to sing in the style of another artist.
This also means that tech Technically, a song that features an AI voice trained on a famous artist's voice is legal, as long as everything else—the lyrics, the composition, the beat—are all fully original.
The current argument against all of this, especially from record labels, is that AI voices are being trained on copyrighted music.
In some US states and other countries.
There is also the right of publicity, which protects the unauthorized commercial use of one's name, image and likeness if it is recognizable by the public.
There's no straightforward answer to any of this, and it's going to take some time for the laws to catch up to AI.
But until then, I'm going to continue pretending to be Kanye West.
It's just too much fun.
The fun was short-lived, however, as no orders came in over the next two and a half weeks.
Seemed like that last order was just a stroke of luck until day 24.
I got an order.
They want me to rap a verse for an original Christian rap song.
Interesting.
I guess Kanye is a Christian rapper.
When rapping for Sovets SVC, I ran into a few issues.
I discovered that you can't go all out loud or quiet, or sing really high notes or really low notes, or else things will start sounding robotic and strange.
This limited what I could do with my vocals and typically forced me to re-record several times to get a good take.
To sound most like Kanye, it's best to pronounce like Kanye.
Not gonna lie, though.
It's tough when rapping fast and in a flow that doesn't match his typical one.
There's much more to Kanye's sound than just his voice.
As day 30 approached, I believe that was it.
Two orders, all right.
But as I was about to call it, Someone just messaged me.
Hey, Jensen Tung.
Great impression.
If you could give me two lines within an hour or two, I'd be more than happy to pay five times the normal amount.
Yo!
Yes, I can.
He made the order.
Okay, I gotta do this real quick.
This is Ye.
I'd love to help the digital musicians.
Also, this is fictitious and you do not have the means to contact me.
Easy.
It doesn't sound very good.
Can you improve the last sentence?
Oh crap, sure, I'll rerecord it.
Also, this is fictitious and you do not have the means to contact me.
Still sounds off.
You do not have the means to contact me.
No.
Means to contact me.
No.
Contact me.
No.
Contact me.
No.
You do not have the means to contact me.
I think that'll work.
I gotta get this in on time.
I'm saving, delivering.
Ah, much better, thanks.
Made it.
And he completed the order.
That was too intense.
It's day 30 and the end of this crazy adventure.
To make money rapping as Kanye, as someone who's not even a rapper, it's just too funny.
In total, I received three orders.
Two rap verses and one voiceover.
I made $175 in revenue and minus all the Fiverr's fees, made a profit of $140.
All of this will be donated in support of the fight against discrimination and anti-Semitism.
Be sure to like this video, subscribe if you haven't already, and peace out.
