Dubbed "Photoshop-for-voice",[1] it was first previewed at the Adobe MAX event in November 2016.
Adobe stated Voco would lower the cost of audio production.
[1][3] Ethical and security concerns were raised over the ability to alter an audio recording to include words and phrases the original speaker never spoke, and the potential risk to voiceprint biometrics.
[1] Concerns also rose that it may be used in conjunction with: Adobe's lack of publicized progress opened opportunities for other projects to build alternative products to VOCO, such as Resemble AI and 15.ai, a real-time text-to-speech tool using artificial intelligence.
WaveNet is a similar but open-source research project at London-based artificial intelligence firm DeepMind, developed independently around the same time as Adobe Voco.