On Monday, SAG-AFTRA filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board against Epic subsidiary Llama Productions for implementing an AI-generated Darth Vader voice in ...

Automated voice programs are being upgraded from old-school systems with little or no AI to newer speech-to-text and text-to-speech models combined with large language models.

Microsoft revealed a set of updates to its Azure platform during the Build 2025 conference aimed at improving dev access to AI-powered voice agents, document indexing and vector search integration.

The union claims that Llama Productions failed to notify the labor group and negotiate when it began employing a James Earl Jones voice that replaced the work of members. By Katie Kilkenny Labor ...

“I am honored to bring you Melania – The AI Audiobook – narrated entirely using artificial intelligence in my own voice,” Trump wrote in a post on X, along with a futuristic video.

What just happened? The use of AI to recreate the voice of the late James Earl Jones for Darth Vader in Fortnite has run into more controversy. Soon after players managed to make the character ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)– Con-artists are taking scam calls to the next level using AI voice cloning. Scammers are mimicking the voice of your family and friends using AI technology, calling you ...

Two years before Jones passed away in 2024, he retired as the voice of Darth Vader and signed a deal that allows an AI program to recreate his iconic voice in perpetuity. SAG-AFTRA's filing ...

Gayanne Potter claims recordings of her voice were used unknowingly to train an artificial Scottish speaker called Iona A woman who believes her voice has been used to create ScotRail's new AI ...

DoorDash Inc. ended a pilot of its voice-ordering product for restaurant clients, a year after it poached talent from an artificial intelligence startup to bolster the product. DoorDash's decision ...

Now, an artificial intelligence (AI) version of her voice is being used on Scotland's nationalised train network, ScotRail. But the professional voiceover artist says she had no idea she had been ...

A woman who believes her voice has been used to create ScotRail's new AI-generated announcement system is calling for it to be removed from trains. ScotRail recently introduced a synthetic ...