ElevenLabs strike deals with celebs to create AI audio

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ElevenLabs struck a woody with actors Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey to AI-generate their voices, the institution announced this week.

Hollywood and AI person an up-and-down relationship, with AI and its — oregon deficiency thereof — guardrails serving among the main concerns that led to the Hollywood strikes a fewer years ago. Since then, immoderate artists person started to lukewarm up to the thought of AI.

Last year, Meta announced that its Meta AI would connection dependable assistants that dependable similar actresses Kristen Bell and Judi Dench. With McConaughey, an capitalist successful ElevenLabs, the institution volition construe his newsletter into Spanish audio with the usage of his AI voice.

ElevenLabs besides announced this week that it was launching a marketplace to fto brands usage authorized AI-generated voices of celebrities, which volition see Caine and different names similar Liza Minelli and Dr. Maya Angelou.

ElevenLabs is 1 of the much fashionable AI unicorn companies and has backers including a16z and ICONIQ.  

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