Talent management agency Produced by Oni A new partnership with artificial intelligence voice platform CoeFont was announced on Monday. The partnership’s first project uses voice data from 10 voice actors, including Masako Nozawa and Galaxy Banjocreates artificial intelligence replicas of speech for use in virtual assistants (such as Alexa and Google Assistant), medical devices, robots, and voice-assisted navigation.
The AI-replicated voices will be available in multiple languages, starting with English and Chinese.
The new project acknowledges the potential threat to the rights and livelihoods of performers posed by the use of generative artificial intelligence and promises not to use voice training materials for the performance of animation, dubbing or similar works.
Sony Music Entertainment The YOMIBITO Plus audiobook app was previously launched in March 2023, which uses CoeFont’s synthesized speech. The app features Japanese literary classics read by the synthesized voices of three famous voice actors, including the late voice actor Kenji Utsumi, Umeda Shuichiroand Xiaoxi Kezhi.
Source: CoeFont Youtube Channel, public trust list
