“We’re fighting a very big monster,” said dubbing Hollywood star Will Smith, the character Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, and the party-loving lemur King Julien in the animated film. The Mexican artist in charge, Mario Filho, said: Madagascar. ”
Campaigning under the slogan “Don’t Steal Our Voices”, more than 20 voice acting guilds, associations and unions in Europe, the United States and Latin America have formed the United Voice Artists Coalition.
It represents faceless voiceover artists and narrators of commercials, movies, audiobooks and video games who fear that their voices will be replaced by machines without their consent or even cloned by artificial intelligence. I’m here.
According to the group, “the indiscriminate and unregulated use of artificial intelligence risks wiping out an artistic heritage of creativity and wonder, assets that machines cannot produce.” Voice Actor (NAVA) and Latin American Unity voice organization.
“Our voice is our livelihood,” NAVA Vice President Karin Gilfry said in a statement last month.
“And if we can’t control how that voice is used, we can’t make a living,” she added.
Voice artists were already competing with text-to-speech technology that converts written words into synthesized speech.
Now artificial intelligence poses a new threat.
Thanks to machine learning, the software can compare audio samples to millions of existing samples and identify patterns that generate clones.
Desiree Hernandez, president of the Mexican Association of Commercial Announcers, said, “We are underpinned by the voices we have been providing for years.”
“We are talking about the right to use your voice without your consent,” she added.
“Adapt or Disappear”
The platform offers human-like text-to-speech services at a fraction of what professionals charge.
One of them, revoicer.com, says it won’t replace human narration, but instead will offer a faster and cheaper alternative.
They remained employed, but the voice actors suspect companies are using their voices to amass an archive.
Artists are looking for tools to track their voices in the face of sophisticated piracy.
Colombian voice artist Daniel Soler de la Prada says they want a law to prevent recordings of their voices from being used for AI development without their consent, and they want human dubbing quotas. He also said he supports the setting of
In the future, audiences will be able to hear famous actors in several languages with the intonation of dubbing artists, Filho said.
It could bring jobs and profits to the general public, but voice artists “need to charge a fair fee,” he added.
Mexican voice artist Macrovia Gonzalez said he would only sign deals with AI companies if they provided enough information about how their content would be used.
“I want to be part of this revolution, but not at all costs,” she said.
Art Dubbing has received some requests from clients to use synthetic voices, but faces a dilemma of “adapt or disappear,” says Mexican founder Anual Lopez de la Mr Pena said.
Filho said he stopped recording many clients for fear of compromising his colleagues’ lives.
But he added that he is skeptical that artificial intelligence will completely replace voice actors because machines “have no soul.”
