Françoise Cadol, Françoise Cadol, has announced the French version of Lara Croft on all Tomb Raider Games from its inception until 2008, but has taken legal action against Aspyr Media for apparent Ai-generated use of her voice in the Tomb Raider 4-6 remaster.
Cadre told French newspaper Le Parisien (via Gamer) that Aspire Media used her voice to generate lines of dialogue without asking or notifying her. She reportedly issued demand for stopping and destination to aspill.
Examples of examples where AI is allegedly generated are shared on social media, and you can clearly hear the difference between the original Tomb Raider game and the recently remastered game. The much more robotic reading of the line suddenly takes over the remastered dialogue halfway through.
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Dubbed regularly for famous actors like Angelina Jolie, including dubbing performances in the 2001 Tomb Raider film, Cudre was warned of inconsistencies in recordings by French Tomb Raider fans. Talking to Le Parisien, Cadol stated that the use of AI here is a “betrayal” of their support.
“It's a game, my voice will accompany the gamers, we will play together,” Cudol said in the article's translation. “Tomb Raider has been a lot of people over the years. For them, it's betrayal and totally rude. They're angry.”
Surprisingly, this is not the only example of AI-generated audio work in the game. Brazilian actor Rene Bastos also said by fans that her voice appears to have been produced in a remaster, and she decided to talk about it. This prompted me to reply and apologize from Aspyr. Bastos explains in an Instagram video that Aspyr has promised to remove the lines generated by AI in the update in a few weeks.
It is unclear if Aspyr contacted Cadol and said the same thing. We have requested a comment from Aspyr.
Earlier this year, the entire French cast of multiplayer shooter Apex Legends refused to sign an agreement that would allow the voice to train generative AI for the game.
“We are asked to give up our expertise to train generative AI that will replace us tomorrow,” commented Pascale Chemin, voice of French Reiss at Apex Legends. “We are asked to agree that we are specifically fighting. We are asked to shoot ourselves with our feet. We are asked to support AI.”
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