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AI Voices
I just added an episode of a YouTube series wherein the host usually does his own speaking (but never appears onscreen). In this video, however, he is sick, and so he allows an AI bot with his voice to narrate the show.
Does IMDb have a rule about this sort of thing yet? I gave the host a "credit only" credit and left it at that. Would IMDb prefer a different attribute? Does this count as "archive sound," since the AI has learned from the host's actual voice?
Note that there are many YouTube videos out there with AI voices, often trained on well-known persons. Sometimes the person being imitated is even credited, even though he has no involvement in the video—and sometimes is long dead. How would this be handled?
Do we need a new attribute? Maybe "AI imitation"?
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Jay: I would not consider an AI voice to be a voice credit for the actual person that the voice is based on.
I have seen situations like this before, such as on the series "Ebert Presents: At the Movies" (2010), which Roger Ebert produced after he had lost his voice due to cancer surgery. His reviews were usually read for him by another person, most often Bill Kurtis. But sometimes the reviews were read using a computer-synthesized voice. (See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1831923/trivia/ for a trivia item about the first episode when his computer-synthesized voice was used.) Ebert still appeared on camera, though, so he had a Cast credit in any event.
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