034: The ScarJo Effect - Maintaining and Protecting Voice Agency in an AI World

05/23/24 • 20 min

New guest, who dis? This episode, Damien invites Nathan Liu, VP of Deployments at PolyAI, discusses the company's approach to making the world's most lifelike voice assistant, emphasizing the synergy between AI and human voice actors to enhance voice assistant quality while safeguarding actors' interests. The conversation touches on concerns about AI replacing voice actors, recent controversies involving synthesized voices, and the future potential of AI in augmenting the industry rather than replacing human talent. They're also looking ahead at technical advancements in generating authentic-sounding AI voices and while preserving the integrity of voice actors' contributions.

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Nathan00:00:00.200

we still use that actor to record top up audio and live audio as well. On top of the synthesized voice to make sure the quality is perfect.

Nathan00:00:09.730

And that means that there's an ongoing relationship. There's ongoing work for the actor. I think that any fears about, synthesized voices, reducing the need for actors is probably unfounded. It's probably doing the opposite. And actually increasing the work that