
VoiceBox
AI Voice Box
Yasha Jain, ZKM | Hertzlab, 2024
The Voicebox is an installation that creates AI-generated radio plays using the participant's voice. It is an immersive, interactive art installation that combines technology, sound, and storytelling. Visitors are invited to record their own voice, which then becomes the starting point for an AI-driven experience. Using cutting-edge voice-cloning technology, the Voicebox creates a fully-fledged radio play, featuring the participant's voice as the main voice and integrated into a narrative generated by artificial intelligence.
Exploring the dynamic relationship between human expression and machine intelligence, the installation offers insight into how voices, identities, and stories can be transformed and reinvented. With each recording, a new story emerges—a fleeting, personal performance that disappears as quickly as it was created. The result is both familiar and surreal, as listeners hear their own voices in an otherworldly radio play, blurring the boundaries between writer, performer, and audience.
At its core, The Voicebox questions the nature of authorship and creativity: What happens when machines take over our voices and create their own stories? What does it feel like to hear your own voice not as an echo, but as the protagonist of a story you didn't write? Through this exploration, the installation offers an experience that is both deeply personal and universally reflective, using sound as a canvas for a new form of digital storytelling.