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Whose voice is it anyway? Actors take on AI copycats (www.japantimes.co.jp)
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Artists around the world are joining forces to protect their jobs, and their souls, from the ramifications of AI that sounds just like them.

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[–] themurphy@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

This is a battle the voice actors won't win, unfortunately. Maybe today, their voices are iconic. You can't make a new Frozen movie or any other Disney Pixar without the original voice actor (you can, but it's bad).

But in the future, the next "voice actor" for the next big Disney Pixar hit, is a pure AI from the start. Then they can control the voice forever. And that's what they want.

I can't see how the voice actors could possibly get around this, because they are suddenly expendable.

[–] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It'll happen in games first.. nobody cares if 'background NPC #15' is generated by AI, and mostly they voice a few sentences at a time.

Suddenly, voices aren't special.. Voice actors have to have something else, like movie or book fame (Audible books seem to be mostly voiced by the authors, and I can't see that going away). But only a few % really have that.. I bet there are thousands of voice actors we wouldn't even recognise the names of.

[–] Paradox@lemdro.id 4 points 2 years ago

Honestly, for games, it's got even more potential. Imagine if the NPCs in games actually said your characters name, not just "dragonborn" or whatever

Imo the smart thing for VAs to do would be get in front of it. License their voices to models, and charge royalties for said models

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