October 21, 2025

Vocal Clones & Digital Doubles: AI Voice cloning in Music (Jemily Rime, Alexandra Huang-Kokina & Ausrine Skarnulyte)

1 hour 1 minute

From synthetic vocals to hyper-realistic artist replicas, AI voice technology is transforming how we create, license, and experience music.

This panel dives into the rapidly evolving world of vocal cloning and digital voice double, not as threats to authenticity, but as powerful tools for innovation, access, and revenue.

Join artists, technologists, and researchers as they explore how AI voice is opening new creative possibilities for collaboration, performance, and multilingual expansion while also unlocking entirely new licensing models, fan experiences, and business strategies.

This ThemaTakt-Live-Podcast was recorded at Music Frontiers - a Berlin Music Tech-Conference "where visionary minds take center stage to discuss the evolution of the music ecosystem."

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Speakers:

Jemily Rime (Professor of Electronic and Produced Music | Guildhall School of Music and Drama)

Jemily is a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and a research fellow with StoryLab at Anglia Ruskin University. She focuses on applications and affordances of new technologies in music and audio production, especially in cultural heritage contexts, and involving elements of participatory design or co-creation. Her PhD research centred around the production of personalised and immersive audio using AI-driven tools for podcasts. Jemily is a professional musician and composer, and studied Physics at King’s College London.

Ausrine Skarnulyte (CEO | Voice-Swap Limited)

Ausrine is the CEO of Voice-Swap, an AI voice technology and rights management company that specialises in creating studio-quality voice models and equitable technological solutions to creative industries, while enhancing rights ownership and empowering stakeholders.

Dr. Alexandra Huang-Kokina (Bicentenary Fellow in Music | University of Edinburgh)

She is an academic, pianist and creative director working at the intersections of music, literature and new media cultures. She holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she explored the dynamic relationship between piano playing and novel writing. Her research is informed by her liberal arts education and practical experience as a music performer. Her current interests include innovation in classical music and opera, AI-augmented creativity in the performing arts, and performance studies more broadly. Alexandra's first opera, Yūrei: Ghost of the AI Empire, premiered in Edinburgh in March 2025. She co-founded Operactive Arts in 2024—an arts management company that reimagines both the artistic and business sides of classical music, while championing emerging musicians, creative technologists, and interdisciplinary artists through opportunities that let their talent shine.

Tobias Wilinski (Podcaster | ThemaTakt-Podcast)

He is a journalist and podcaster. He hosts the music business podcast ThemaTakt, which he founded in 2017.

By now, more than 140 episodes of ThemaTakt have been released. For his work, he won the Listen to Berlin Award in 2024 in the category “Prize for Music Journalism & Podcasts.” From 2020 to 2022, he was the host of the Talk This Way-Podcast. Tobias began his career in the music industry in 2012 as the Head of Germany of the lyrics website Genius.com. He also works for rbb as a YouTube platform manager.

Chapters:

0:00 Start

0:46 Introductions of the Panelists

10:17 How is AI changing songwriting and music-production?

13:44 Multilingual music through AI

24:00 Most exciting examples of AI-Voices

31:10 Future of AI Clones

41:36 How much many can I make with Voice Swap?

43:18 How to keep the control of my AI-voice?

Shownotes:

Velvet Sundown

Katie Price

Maria Callas

Beatport

Robert Owens

Hatsune Miku

DJ Fresh

...more

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By Tobias Wilinski