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Apple’s upcoming accessibility features include text-to-speech AI that can imitate users’ voices
On Tuesday, Apple announced a slew of accessibility features for iPhone and iPad. The new functionality primarily helps customers with cognitive disabilities such as aphasia, ALS, and other conditions that make speaking, reading, or otherwise using a phone or tablet difficult. Some remarkable features include a simpler interface, point-and-speak functionality,…
Here’s Who Voices Zelda In The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is releasing very soon, and now another key detail about the RPG has been revealed regarding one of its main characters.
Patricia Summersett, who voiced Princess Zelda in 2017’s Breath of the Wild, is coming back to play the character once again in Tears of the Kingdom. Summersett said Nintendo gave her the green light to announce her involvement, and her announcement video is pretty nice and wholesome.
In the video, Summersett talks about how she’s amazed that the series was created in part because of Shigeru Miyamoto’s love of the outdoors and nature. To honor this, Summersett shared a photo of herself as a child catching a frog in a coffee tin.
Surprise Nintendo Direct Reveals Mario Movie Voices Coming to ‘All Of Your Favorite Mario Games’
Amplifying New Voices workshop teaches diverse game talent how to lead and speak
Amplifying New Voices will take place on Sunday as a one-day workshop that focuses on professional skills and representation, held ahead of the Game Developers Conference. It’s aimed at underrepresented people in the gaming community. The 6th annual event brings together veterans with new voices in the game industry to train a new generation of […]
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Audiobook Narrators Complain Apple May Have Used Them To Train AI Voices
Specifically, Apple said that the new AI audiobooks were only done for titles where it was not economic to hire an actor. So that would be low-circulation ones such as textbooks, small presses, and self-published titles. Now according to Wired, voiceover artists and authors working with a company called Findaway have complained about Apple using them to train their own AI replacements. Findaway is effectively a self-publishing audio company that is owned by Spotify, where authors pay to have audiobooks produced. As yet, it appears that no actors working for traditionally published titles — where the audiobook is produced by the publisher without a charge to the author — have complained.
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