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Hollywood stars Matthew McConaughey and Sir Michael Caine person licensed their voices to ElevenLabs, an AI audio institution which hosts a room of celebrities — some surviving and dead.
The announcement comes alongside the motorboat of ElevenLabs' Iconic Voices Marketplace, a storefront for personage voices that brands tin wage to reproduce. This includes deceased actors specified arsenic Judy Garland, and humanities figures specified arsenic J Robert Oppenheimer.
Dark Knight and The Muppet Chrismas Carol fable Caine is besides present 1 of the celebrities that brands tin wage to use. "For years, I've lent my dependable to stories that moved radical – tales of courage, of wit, of the quality spirit," Caine said successful a statement. "Now, I'm helping others find theirs.
"With ElevenLabs, we tin sphere and stock voices — not conscionable mine, but anyone's," Caine continued. "ElevenLabs is astatine the precise forefront of technology, utilizing innovation not to regenerate humanity, but to observe it... It's not astir replacing voices; it's astir amplifying them, opening doors for caller storytellers everywhere."
In September, the 92-year-old histrion amazed fans by announcing helium would travel retired of status to marque a sequel to a Vin Diesel movie from a decennary ago. The Last Witch Hunter 2 is reportedly being "fast-tracked done development," with Caine and Diesel some expected to reprise their erstwhile roles.
McConaughey, meanwhile, said helium had invested an undisclosed sum successful ElevenLabs aft being "impressed" by the company. As an illustration of however his dependable volition beryllium used, the histrion linked to a Spanish-language mentation of his newsletter — Lyrics of Livin' — created utilizing the AI reproduction of his voice, and said it would let him to "reach and link with adjacent much people."
Earlier this year, Fortnite developer Epic Games raised eyebrows by allowing players to chat with a generative AI mentation of Darth Vader wrong the game, voiced by a licensed reproduction of the precocious James Earl Jones. But portion the usage of AI voices is becoming much widespread, not everyone is simply a fan. Last year, Sir David Attenborough issued a strongly-worded connection saying helium was "profoundly disturbed" that AI was being utilized to person him accidental beauteous overmuch anything.
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