Darth Vader's voice in Obi-Wan Kenobi was entirely AI-generated

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Darth Vader's voice in Obi-Wan Kenobi was entirely AI-generated
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Although James Earl Jones 'guided' the performance of his iconic character, the actual lines were all generated by an AI firm in Ukraine

, which reported, among other things, about how Respeecher’s employees apparently worked through the early days of the Russian invasion of their country to finish the effects for the show. ; before that, he’d returned to the character inRevenge Of The Sith

. At 91 years old, though, Wood says Jones “had mentioned he was looking into winding down this particular character,” and so the studio started looking into AI as a solution. Wood says Jones was still involved in the project, acting as “ a benevolent godfather” who gave guidance on how the character should sound. When presented with the finished result, Jones signed off on it; his family,

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