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A group of several voice and motion capture actors recently announced the launch of an audio play project called True Indie Voice Art (TIVA), which has a simple enough prospectus: A collective of professional actors who will provide authentic voice work for storytelling purposes. But the tale behind its founding, by author Nolan Kelly and voice actor Alix Wilton Regan, is almost as complex and dramatic as the stories the actors themselves narrate.
TIVA’s voice talent, Emma Gregory, Devora Wilde, Jane Perry, Melissanthi Mahut, Jo Martin, Jennifer Hale, Alix Wilton Regon, Safiyya Ingar, Jennifer English and Aliona Baranova Credit: TIVA
In an age of AI, actors seem to be fighting the robots for their jobs. The disagreement between SAG-AFTRA and many major gaming companies stemmed, at least in part, from a difference of opinion about what place (if any) AI had in the acting and vocal space. According to the former’s stipulations, actors don’t only have to fear the potential of AI being used to supplant them on certain jobs, but also that their voices could be used to train AI replicas of them without their consent.
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