Good-enough
Wendy Grossman,
net.wars,
Sept 07, 2022
While TikTok's AI voices are almost universally hated, for most day-to-day applications artificial voices are good enough (indeed, as Wendy Grossman notes, having a human read railway announcements, customer service bulletins or marketing campaigns would be overkill). But the writing is on the wall. This article raises the question of whether people whose voices were used as samples deserve royalties (especially if their voice is distinctive and already famous). "Today," writes Grossman, "voice actors really could find themselves competing for work against synthesized versions of themselves." True, but that's only today. AI synthesizers will soon generate genuinely unique voices, and the market for human voice actors will disappear. Bad news for them, but good news for people who depend on (say) access to inexpensive audio recordings of learning materials.
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