What Would You Sound Like as a Grammy Winning Singer? I Actually Found Out (Cool Tools 56)

If you've ever wondered what you'd sound like as a Grammy award-winning singer,

I think I might have a tool for that. So, let's discuss.

Welcome to the most prolific AI marketing podcast out there, the InnerNutshell podcast.

This is the daily 10-minute podcast where I take out all of the techy talk around

generative AI. I focus on what every day person, content creator and marketer wants to hear.

Now, if I only got 10 minutes, I can only focus on one subject. And as it's Tuesday,

yes, it's cool tools Tuesday. The first episode back after the long weekend,

the Good Friday, Easter, Sunday and Easter Monday. So, I hope everyone had a good time.

I had a pre-relaxing time, actually. Lots of unpacking, try to relax a bit. There was

boxing and football, and my team lost, got not that FA Cup. But let's talk about that.

But good boxing. And yeah, just a nice weekend. Now, back to the grind, busy April, but I usually take

off Good Friday and Easter Monday from the episodes. In fact, just let you know, over the year,

the only days, weekdays I take off will be Good Friday, Easter Monday and Christmas Boxing Day,

and New Year's Day, pretty much. So, there are only four stroke five days that I take off during the year.

Anyway, you're not here to listen to what days I'm taking off, you're here to listen to

free cool tools. Now, the first tool I want to talk about, this came from a request, actually.

Somebody asked in a workshop last week, they said, do you know any good tools that helps when it

come to what free tools that helps when it comes to upscaling images? Now, if you're going to pay

for one, magnificent is a really good one. If you want a free one, Adobe. Adobe is got some really

cool tools. Now, the good thing about Adobe is that you can trust it. Adobe over the years, especially

in the software spaces, has built up a lot of trust. So, anything Adobe-wise, I pretty much will

go to, especially if it's free. And they've got an image upscaler. And it's pretty straightforward.

You just go to the website, which is adobe.com slash products slash firefly slash features slash

image underscore upscaler or you want to do it the easy way. Just go to Google adobe image upscaler

and it will be the first link. But what that does is it takes you to a page, it will say AI image

upscaler, enhance your images in Firefly. And then it's very simple. You upload your image,

it has to be a certain size in dimensions and it can't be over I think about 100 megabytes.

And then what it will do is you can upload your image. It will give you like a grid,

like so you can just kind of move it across to say what it was like before. It was like after this,

you could see the quality in difference. And it's a really good tool. So one of the best free ones

I've seen so far. If you want to upscale any images so you might have an image, usually it might

be an old image. So I've got old images. Well, I've always, there's this one image that I've got

of Snoop Doggie Dog when I was this must have been, well, this would have been my BBC days when

he came into the studio. But it was on an old camera. So the actual image is not great. So that's

usually the one that I use to test these image upscalers to see what they look like. Some,

well, I think two maybe free is made it look really good. Most of them they, it doesn't really

upscale what they try to do is recreate the image and I'm looking at it and like that doesn't look

like me and it definitely doesn't look like Snoop, but this one it keeps it to that particular

standard. So definitely check that out. Also, also, I believe you might be able to vibe code

something like this as well. I've done something similar, which I can break down in either an episode

like this or a fortnightly fix because then you can, I can share my screen. So the first tool,

AI image upscaler by Adobe. The second tool. Now, Soono has made some updates. Soono 5.5. There's

a few features here. I'm just going to talk about one and that is voice cloning. But not voice

cloning like you can do on 11 labs or any of the other platforms where you record your voice,

it clones your voice and then you can type in anything and it delivers it in your voice.

This is cloning your speaking voice or your singing voice in order for it to sing songs.

So what you do, very simple. Now, be honest, I don't know if this is paid or if this is free

feature. I have the paid for Soono so I can do it, but I don't know whether you can do it on the

free plan. But what you do is you'll say voice cloning or whatever it's called AI voice and then

it will ask you to sing something. So you just sing any song. I can't remember. I think I sang

the song if it's raining, it's raining. Don't even remember that song. If it's raining, it's raining.

That song. Then it asked you to verify your voice. So then you say something so it kind of works

out. All right, this is you rather than it's like someone fake because obviously you get a lot of

people that dig fake voices. Then it asks you your skill level in singing. Are you a beginner?

As in you've never really sang before. Are you a veteran and everything kind of in between?

Then it asks you to tag and describe your voice. So you can say I'm very soulful or I'm very

grimy or whatever, whatever style you want. These are optional. You don't have to do that.

And then it will store your voice. And then you can use it like how you would normally use it.

So you might type in lyrics and then you might type in the style you want. Whether it be I want

it to be a gram song or opera song or a classical song or a country song or a soulful song.

And then it uses your voice. Now I'm going to play mine. I'm going to play it for a bit.

And yeah, this is what I would sound like. And by the way, I can't sing at all. But this is what I would

sound like if I could sing.

I used to play these chords with my bare hands. Late nights cheap wine chasing something real.

Now there's a machine that can feel what I feel or at least it pretends and damn it sounds so real.

It learned my pain in a couple of seconds. Every melody, every lesson I've read.

Now it seems like me, but it don't lose sleep. Don't break down crying. Don't lie in my bed.

Know it's my voice. Every crack, every tone. But it don't know what it means to be alone.

Is this whole if a machine can sing it back to me? Is it love if it's just holding them with me?

You got the sound, you got the groove, you got the melody. But can you feel it? I just repeat it perfectly.

So I play it to my partner as she was like, that doesn't sound nothing like you. And I was like,

I don't know if I could sing often, cause sound like this. So yeah, it's difficult because

it's not like the voice cloning where I can speak and then I can play it again and I can say that

sounds like me or it doesn't. I've heard my voice enough. But singing to that type of level,

I've never done that before. So I don't know what I don't have anything to compare it to,

if that makes sense. But anyways, worth giving it a try. Check it out. It's Suno version 5.5

the voice cloning option. The third tool and I'm going to keep it to music because

there's a tool I came across. It's called air music. Now, it's got a feature which allows you to

generate a music video. So I can upload a clip of a song so I could upload that clip, put it into

this and it will generate a music video. However, I will say this. For free, you can't do it. At best,

it will create images for you. And I look to that and I was like, you don't really need it. You can

do this in Nano Banana. But the music video, it does if you pay for it. I decided not to pay for it

because I just didn't want to, but I did want to let people know about it because I have had this

quite a few times in the past. How can I create a music video from the back of this? So this might

be a tool. So I wanted to let you guys know about it. However, it does have some additional things

that you can do or some things you can do for free, some things you can't. So you can obviously

generate music on this platform. You can generate instrumentals as well. So rather than just have

vocals, you can have instrumentals. I'll be honest, that's what I mainly use music generators for.

You could do vocal remover. So if, for example, you like a particular song, but it's got vocals over

it, you can remove the vocals. Now, I'll be honest, I've not tried this on big tracks, like in a

Dell track or wherever it may be. I've not tried it that way. I know people would, whoa, they

might want to do it that way. I've not tried it that way. I don't know whether or not they will

even allow you to because it will be copyrighted, but it's a vocal remover if you want to use it

otherwise. And just a few other features. So if you're into music, how have a play with air

music? It might be a little hidden gem. I've not, as I said, I've not really gone into that much

detail with it, but it came across my path, has a few different things to it. It might be a tool,

if you're into music, that will be a little secret gem. Who knows? To another nutshell,

they were my free tools today.