{"id":126440,"date":"2021-08-18T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T20:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/val-kilmer-recreated-his-speaking-voice-using-artificial-intelligence-and-hours-of-old-audio"},"modified":"2021-08-18T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T20:22:18","slug":"val-kilmer-recreated-his-speaking-voice-using-artificial-intelligence-and-hours-of-old-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/val-kilmer-recreated-his-speaking-voice-using-artificial-intelligence-and-hours-of-old-audio","title":{"rendered":"Val Kilmer Recreated His Speaking Voice Using Artificial Intelligence and Hours of Old Audio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OSMue60Gg6s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd72\ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/val\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Val<\/a> Kilmer marked the release of his acclaimed documentary \u201cVal\u201d (now streaming on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/amazon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Amazon<\/a> Prime Video) in a milestone way: He recreated his old speaking voice by feeding hours of recorded audio of himself into an artificial intelligence algorithm. Kilmer lost the ability to speak after undergoing throat cancer treatment in 2014. Kilmer\u2019s team recently joined forces with software company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/sonantic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Sonantic<\/a> and \u201cVal\u201d distributor Amazon to \u201ccreate an emotional and lifelike model of his old speaking voice\u201d (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/listen-to-val-kilmer-use-an-ai-voice-model-to-speak-about-his-creative-soul-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">The Wrap<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful to the entire team at Sonantic who masterfully restored my voice in a way I\u2019ve never imagined possible,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/val-kilmer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Val Kilmer<\/a> said in a statement. \u201cAs human beings, the ability to communicate is the core of our existence and the side effects from throat cancer have made it difficult for others to understand me. The chance to narrate my story, in a voice that feels authentic and familiar, is an incredibly special gift.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83e\udd72\ud83d\udc4d Val Kilmer marked the release of his acclaimed documentary \u201cVal\u201d (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video) in a milestone way: He recreated his old speaking voice by feeding hours of recorded audio of himself into an artificial intelligence algorithm. Kilmer lost the ability to speak after undergoing throat cancer treatment in 2014. Kilmer\u2019s team [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}