What is the future for the voice actors then? Once the AI is trained they don't need to hire the kid for further recording sessions so they can cut them loose, use the AI and pay whatever royalties.
At some point they wont even need people and you can just ask for "British Cockney spoken by an 8 year old female with a slight Chinese accent" then fine tune the results and paste in the dialogue.
> "British Cockney spoken by an 8 year old female with a slight Chinese accent"
This is already the case. The voice acting industry has inertia, and many union contracts have minimum hiring quotas.
In practice, if you consider the output good enough, existing models can generate arbitrary voices that don't correspond to any person. No one has to sign or license anything.
At some point they wont even need people and you can just ask for "British Cockney spoken by an 8 year old female with a slight Chinese accent" then fine tune the results and paste in the dialogue.
This is already the case. The voice acting industry has inertia, and many union contracts have minimum hiring quotas.
In practice, if you consider the output good enough, existing models can generate arbitrary voices that don't correspond to any person. No one has to sign or license anything.