>>59184 all of the cringe boomers are dying lmaooooooooo zoomers are gunna be the real GOATs of the world

>>59185 With the way things are going a lot of voice work won't be done by Zoomers, Gen Alpha, or even Millennials but AI. Still not quite there yet (Amazon's recent AI anime dub are hilariously bad), but AI replicating voices is actually getting pretty good compared with LLM chatbots and art generation and will probably be good enough (or at least good enough the companies and mainstream audiences don't care) within a decade to replace human voice actors entirely. Likely a lot of these older voice actors are just going to increasingly get replaced by AI not newer generations because the companies involved are getting tired of having to deal with guilds and actors. There's a general sentiment with a lot people on various /co/, /a/, and similar boards it's not ideal, but when the alternative is political nut localizers, animators, and voice actors antagonizing audiences on social media or fucking with the work itself... Western localizers and animation industry brought it on themselves with years of focusing on activism over art. Maybe in a different world we could have had something like Japan where voice actors are actually well respected.

>>59186 Voice cloning has gotten leaps and bound better since those early MLP/TF2 11lab.ai experiments in 2022. Compared to the stilted and obvious AI voices back then it's gotten a lot smoother. Not to mention the appeal of digital necromancy when it comes to voice actors who have died.

>>59187 >Not to mention the appeal of digital necromancy when it comes to voice actors who have died. On one hand it sounds ghoulish on the other it opens the doors for some interesting fan projects based on what ifs like we could have Shrek redubbed with Chris Farley's AI clone voice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MCBI_K2nIw If it gets good enough voicing unproduced scripts from shows and films that got canceled or never got past production and would have used those actors is actually something I look forward to.

RIP

>>59186 >There's a general sentiment with a lot people on various /co/, /a/, and similar boards it's not ideal, but when the alternative is political nut localizers, animators, and voice actors antagonizing audiences on social media or fucking with the work itself... What everyone forgets is that while the machine itself won't have an agenda, the people prompting generation can. At that point, it's worst of both worlds.

Really sucks his last animated role was Lightyear. >>59187 Yeah, like text2img, "AI" (it's not AI) gets judged by the public based on the shittiest, laziest crap made with outdated corpo black box tech instead of the better FOSS stuff because the FOSS stuff isn't burning billions or advertising. >>59186 The thing people inexplicibly don't get about this is that there's no need to clone a specific voice and, even if there was, we just got loads of new talkies and audio records in the public domain literally a few hours ago, and we're going to continue to get more (nevermind all the US Government works that's public domain, or how politicians have almost no rights protections to their likeness: "Casting" Ronald Reagan would get more interest than most AAA list celebs these days since even milquetoast non enterainment media are going to talk about it.)