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AI is already taking jobs from some voice actors

Marketplace Tech

American Public Media

Technology, News

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Powerful new artificial intelligence tools have a lot of people worried about being replaced. Remie Michelle Clarke, a voiceover artist in Dublin, says she’s already seeing it. Michelle Clarke did some voiceover work for Microsoft a few years ago, and since then, her voice has been licensed to third-party companies, including one called Revoicer, an AI company selling text-to-speech voices. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Michelle Clarke about the growing threat this technology poses to her businesses and the experience hearing her own voice doing gigs she didn’t book.

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0:00.0

Marketplace Morning reports new Skin in the Game series explores what we can learn about

0:04.6

money and careers from the $300 billion video game industry. Plus, here how an Oakland-based

0:11.0

program helps young people get the skills they need to break into this booming industry.

0:15.9

Listen to Skin in the Game and more from the Marketplace Morning report wherever you get your

0:20.7

podcasts. What if AI didn't just take your job, but your voice too? From American public media,

0:29.7

this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty-Karino.

0:39.7

Powerful new artificial intelligence tools have a lot of humans worried about being replaced.

0:46.4

Remi Michelle Clark says she's already seeing it. She's a voice-over artist in Dublin, Ireland.

0:52.4

A voice-over artist basically puts voice to anything that you can think of. You might hear a voice-over

0:58.6

artist selling you something on Spotify. Equally, you could be learning from a voice-over artist.

1:04.2

You could be learning modules about medicine or you might be watching documentaries and hearing

1:11.3

a voice-over talk to you about pressure sharks. There is kind of no limit to what a voice-over can do.

1:18.1

Now meet Olivia, an AI-generated voice on a website called Revoicer.

1:24.2

Hello, my dear ones. My name is Olivia. I have a soft and caring voice.

1:30.6

I can record voice-overs for audiobooks, educational videos, and even make a soft cell.

1:37.6

Sound familiar? A few years ago, Remi did some voice work for Microsoft. Since then,

1:43.2

her text-to-speech voice has apparently been licensed, and now she says, it's everywhere.

1:50.1

I mean, it's uncanny. It's a surreal thing to listen to it, because I know that's me,

1:56.3

and I can remember, as soon as I hear it, I visualize the hours I spent in my studio,

2:01.5

and I can just hear those hours of work in that. And now here's this company called Revoicer.com,

2:08.4

who I've never heard of, profiting of hours of my work. And, you know, I just have been completely

2:14.7

left out of that equation. It does sound like you, but it does also sound pretty obviously fake,

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