"We're fighting a very big monster," said Mario Filio, a Mexican artist who has done voiceovers for Hollywood star Will Smith, the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in Star Wars and the party-loving lemur King Julien in the animated movie"Madagascar."
"The undiscriminating and unregulated use of artificial intelligence is a risk that could lead to the extinction of an artistic heritage of creativity and wonder, an asset that machines cannot generate," according to the group, which says its members include the US National Association of Voice Actors and Latin America's Organization of United Voices."And if we don't have control over how those voices are used, we can't make a living," she added.
Platforms offer human sounding text-to-speech services for a fraction of what professionals would charge. In the future, audiences could hear a famous actor's voice in several languages but with the intonation of a dubbing artist, Filio said.