9 comments

  • rocmcd 4 hours ago

    Maybe I'm getting old, but, I have to say, seeing stuff like "Alan Turing™" (a legend and titan of computing history, followed by a ™) really bums me out. I don't believe for one second that any of the deceased people listed here would want their likeness emulated in such a hollow, mechanical, and inhuman way for all of eternity.

  • rasse an hour ago

    I'd personally want to hear new voices, not more of the same. I wonder if products like this take away from the opportunity for new talent to arise.

  • a2dam 6 hours ago

    An enormous bummer of a fact is that Majel Barrett, who was the voice of the computer on Star Trek (along with a number of other roles), did phonetic voice recordings specifically to reproduce her voice, yet nobody has used those recordings to do so. I'd love to see her on this list.

    • KetoManx64 15 minutes ago

      There's plenty of open source tools out there that you can use to do this. Why wait for someone else to make something that you're passionate about?

    • squigz 5 hours ago

      You mean Lwaxana Troi, Daughter of the Fifth House, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Riix, Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed?

  • andrewstuart 2 hours ago

    It makes sense to allow people to license their own voice on a per project basis.

    Voices of dead actors? Feels wrong.

  • AIorNot 2 hours ago

    Yikes

  • flkelfe 6 hours ago

    Classic shovel mentality.

    > Request licensing for ...

    Translation: "We'll be your middle man..."

    I find it hard to believe they already have the 'Ok' from Maya Angelou. Maybe I'm wrong.

    • JasonFPath10 5 hours ago

      Agreed.

      Regardless of getting the "ok" or not, this use of AI just feels morbid.