AI voice actors sound more human than ever–and are ready to hire

Re:AI voice actors sound more human than ever–and are ready ... by ekianjo on Sunday July 11, 2021 @03:28AM (#27799062)

> Several now use a profit-sharing model to pay actors every time a client licenses their specific synthetic voice, which has opened up a new stream of passive income.

Sounds pretty bad. This means we are going to make it artificially expensive for no other good reason than rent-seeking. It's not like the "actor" has to do extra work when someone licenses their voice.

I hope the answer will be to make true AI-based (as in, deep learning voices) that do not exist and screw all the rent-seeking opportunities.

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Re:AI voice actors sound more human than ever–and are ready ... by bastawhiz on Sunday July 11, 2021 @04:02AM (#27799173)

A font designer doesn't do more work when their font faces get used in different works. Stock photo creators don't do extra work when their images get used in new media. Musicians don't do extra work to have their songs used in commercials and movies.

Virtually anyone can use their own voice (or an entirely artificial one) in some work. If folks are willing to pay money to use one particular person's voice, what's the harm in that? If they don't want to pay to use that voice, they have literally billions of other options.

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