Why Using AI Speech in Your Project Is a Bad Idea on a Practical Level

<p>I&rsquo;m going to give you an excellent reason to avoid AI speech that&rsquo;s different from the battle of creative people fighting to be paid fairly for their talent and skills.</p> <p>I know that ethics do matter. Hollywood studios want to use the likenesses and voices of actors and voice actors in perpetuity for a one-time payment, and that&rsquo;s not even close to fair. Smaller producers don&rsquo;t want to pay at all and aren&rsquo;t even interested in getting your consent.</p> <p>Much is being made about James Earl Jones and the quest to model his voice for Darth Vader while he&rsquo;s still alive so Disney can keep using it forever in their Star Wars productions.</p> <p>The difference is that Jones is being paid a boatload of money to&nbsp;<em>license</em>&nbsp;his voice so that his heirs will get royalties from its usage. He can do this because he has clout in Hollywood and a singular voice that is difficult to imitate.</p> <p>SAG-AFTRA wants the same for&nbsp;<em>ALL</em>&nbsp;actors.</p> <p>However, I think AI-modeled speech has another problem at the moment, and it&rsquo;s this:</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/illumination/why-using-ai-speech-in-your-project-is-a-bad-idea-on-a-practical-level-69c4369c896b"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>
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