{"id":147055,"date":"2022-09-25T21:23:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T02:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/an-ai-program-voiced-darth-vader-in-obi-wan-kenobi-so-james-earl-jones-could-finally-retire"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T02:23:52","slug":"an-ai-program-voiced-darth-vader-in-obi-wan-kenobi-so-james-earl-jones-could-finally-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/an-ai-program-voiced-darth-vader-in-obi-wan-kenobi-so-james-earl-jones-could-finally-retire","title":{"rendered":"An AI program voiced Darth Vader in \u2018Obi-Wan Kenobi\u2019 so James Earl Jones could finally retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-ai-program-voiced-darth-vader-in-obi-wan-kenobi-so-james-earl-jones-could-finally-retire.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After 45 years of voicing one of the most iconic characters in cinema history, James Earl Jones has said goodbye to Darth Vader. At 91, the legendary actor recently told Disney he was \u201clooking into winding down this particular character.\u201d That forced the company to ask itself how do you even replace Jones? The answer Disney eventually settled on, with the actor\u2019s consent, involved an AI program.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve seen any of the recent Star Wars shows, you\u2019ve heard the work of Respeecher. It\u2019s a Ukrainian startup that uses archival recordings and a \u201cproprietary AI algorithm\u201d to create new dialogue featuring the voices of \u201cperformers from long ago.\u201d In the case of Jones, the company worked with Lucasfilm to recreate his voice as it had sounded when film audiences first heard Darth Vader in 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 45 years of voicing one of the most iconic characters in cinema history, James Earl Jones has said goodbye to Darth Vader. At 91, the legendary actor recently told Disney he was \u201clooking into winding down this particular character.\u201d That forced the company to ask itself how do you even replace Jones? The answer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147055","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}