Editor ((install)): Expansion Voice

Outstanding. A paradigm shift for dialogue editing. Disclosure: Expansion Labs provided a review license for the EVE Studio tier. No other compensation was received. The author has no financial interest in the company.

If you work with the human voice for a living, stop reading this review and go download the trial. Your old editor just became a museum piece. expansion voice editor

There are rough edges—the learning curve is steep (plan on a weekend of tutorials), and older systems (pre-M2 Mac or equivalent PC) will struggle with real-time decomposition. But those are growing pains for a technology that is clearly the future. Outstanding

By J. Morgan, Senior Tech Correspondent

One beta tester, a dialogue supervisor for an animated series, used this to create three distinct monster voices from a single actor’s performance—without re-recording. Need to replace the word “sad” with “mad” in a finished take? In Pro Tools, you’d pray for an alternate take. In EVE, you type the new word into a text field. The editor analyzes the surrounding prosody and synthesizes the missing phonemes from the actor’s own voice model, built live from the session. The result is indistinguishable from a real recording. It’s not text-to-speech; it’s speech-to-speech recomposition. No other compensation was received