A voice actor at work. Companies may come to regret the lack of human connection if the voice reading an audiobook is AI-generated, Simon Kennedy says.A voice actor at work. Companies may come to regret the lack of human connection if the voice reading an audiobook is AI-generated, Simon Kennedy says.
The recently formed association’s president, Simon Kennedy, told Guardian Australia, the advent of AI and its impact on the voice industry was partly the catalyst for setting up the group, but he says they’re “not anti-tech and we’re certainly not anti-AI”. The group, he said, just wants fair rules around how the technology will be used, and protection for people’s voices against being misused by AI.
“I don’t think that the endgame was really top of mind for people; that your voice will now exist in the marketplace, as a digital clone of yourself, that will basically take work that you could normally get yourself,” he said.for video game development that will pay a fee to actors when clones of their voices are used in video games. In‘Wide as an ocean, shallow as a puddle’
He said using AI voices to generate dialogue will lack the creativity that comes with using a human voice actor on scripted dialogue.“You compare something like some recent video games that are very focused on story narrative and character like Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, Baldur’s Gate 3 … those games are so meticulously crafted.”
But Mortlock said the lag was due to Australia being a smaller market, without the big dataset for the AI to learn the nuances of Australian voices.There’s more data available now. I think it was very US-centric thing … It’s just expanding – I don’t necessarily think it has to do with the accent itself.