I have several tapes (yes actual cassette tapes) of my grandfather reading a novel.
Unfortunately a few of the tapes have degraded to the point that I cannot play them back.
I would love to recreate his voice, to “rerecord” the missing bits.
The recordings are in Danish.
Is this possible?
If it is, how can I go about it?
Voice cloning is still kinda early, especially in the open source area. Whatever you may find now or later (it’s a rapidly developing field), the first and most important step you should do is to digitalize the cassettes into actual audio files to prevent further degradation / loss. Make sure to back those files up too, preferably in the cloud I guess.
You should not need anything special to digitalize the tapes either. A simple cassette player with a 3.5mm audio output fed into your mic input on your computer and a recording software such as Tenacity should be enough (start recording on the program, then play the cassette).