James Earl Jones is Retiring from Darth Vader, But an AI Firm Owns His Voice
, Jones signed over the rights to his voice to Respeecher, a Ukrainian tech company that uses an AI algorithm and archival footage to create new dialogue from actors who’ve either lost their voice or passed away. Jones is 91, and his voice has changed considerably in the last several decades. Enter Respeecher: the technology that helped bring to life a younger Luke Skywalker inwhile physically the character was portrayed by Hayden Christensen and Dmitrious Bistrevsky .
the actor told Lucasfilm sound editor Matthew Wood that he knew his time with the character was coming to an end. “[James] had mentioned he was looking into winding down this particular character,” admitted Wood. Wood then presented Respeecher to Jones, and the actor then signed his rights off. So whilehas Jones credited as Vader, it’s actually the AI program doing the work, though the actor was informed of the show’s plans for his character.
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