James Earl Jones Retires As Vader’s Voice

[modelcitizen]

BS Andor has no Vader at least yet

PS not EVERY story is a "Hero's Journey" to be adhered to by rote

i have spoken although Andor will be just that...to a point (alas i've been bent off topic again. apologies).

 

[joberg]

Bruce Willis sold his likeness to Deepcake, the Russian version of Deepfake. No other details was available.

 

[The Terminator]

Another funny thing(though not funny "ha ha"):
When you point out the fact that JEJ retired a few years ago. That Vader's voice was AI generated by Respeecher. Your comment gets deleted and you get blocked.

 

[Tommy]

When you point out the fact that JEJ retired a few years ago. That Vader's voice was AI generated by Respeecher. Your comment gets deleted and you get blocked.

In what context was this? On Yahoo, or another site?

 

[The Terminator]

In what context was this? On Yahoo, or another site?

Instagram

 

[Psab keel]

And they said Skynet was fictional.....

 

[Tommy]

Respeecher did work from an actor's base reading: "The AI 'clone' of his voice could then be layered over lines read by another actor..."

The droids you’re looking for: how Ukrainian AI recreated Darth Vader’s voice

A Kyiv startup helped ‘clone’ the voice of legendary actor James Earl Jones, 91, for the recent Obi-Wan Kenobi series

www.theguardian.com

And since stories about the war in Ukraine are depressing... here's my favorite JEJ performance (directed by Tim Burton!):

 

[Tommy]

Bruce Willis sold his likeness to Deepcake, the Russian version of Deepfake. No other details was available.

FYI, this seems to have been yet another instance of reporters inserting notions of "rights" into headlines where they don't belong:

Bruce Willis denies selling rights to his face

 

[joberg]

FYI, this seems to have been yet another instance of reporters inserting notions of "rights" into headlines where they don't belong:

Bruce Willis denies selling rights to his face

Saw that this morning on the DailyMail