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I haven't seen it discussed, but I read today that Val Kilmer worked with an artificial intelligence company to recreate his voice. Supposedly they take hours of old recordings and have now created a program that Val can input parameters into and the computer speaks the words in his voice with the tone, volume, emphasis, etc. that's supposedly how he spoke in the scene. Pretty dang cool.
That was done for the recent Val Kilmer documentary, but my friend who worked on TG:M told me he's pretty sure they used screenwriter Chris McQuarrie's voice for the Iceman scene. That said, he could be wrong, and they could have *also* used the A.I. thing here, but I do know that the A.I. was specifically developed/used for the doc.
Post above you is a real thing. My buddy has ALS and can no longer speak. They recorded his voice when he still could. He now uses his eyes to type out what he wants to say and when he's finished the computer says it out loud using his voice putting together the words he recorded previously.
It was definitely an AI company, in fact I had a chance to interview one of the people who worked on it a few weeks ago for a book I'm helping write about Architecture in the Age of A.I. and how the technology to create new forms of art - Luke Skywalker's face, Iceman's voice, etc. is now working its way into architecture and really revolutionizing a lot of the way that architects create and present their work.
The company, which is based in London, has an entire case study on its website on how it did it.
https://www.sonantic.io/blog/helping-actor-val-kilmer-reclaim-his-voiceWhich includes an incredible video of AI Val Kilmer speaking something that the real Kilmer wrote.
Just a warning, there is no one on this thread that won't start crying or at least feel the dust in the last 30 seconds of the video.
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33% Star Wars
33% Astros
33% Making myself laugh
