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AI Startup Aims to Give Voice Actors a Digital Twin
Morpheme strives for a talent friendly approach to applying AI to films and video games
Morpheme will offer a library of exertion sounds, such as heavy breathing or shrieking, that clients will be able to reuse throughout the development process.
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Over the years, Cissy Jones, a voice actor with many credits, including video games Starfield and Baldur’s Gate III, has performed countless fictional mishaps. Death by gunshot, she said, is easy. Whereas death by fire can be long and tedious. One time, she played an astronaut in space who woke up breathing tensely. Ten minutes into the scene, Jones says she came close to passing out.
“Imagine your paycheck being dependent upon being able to sustain that,” Jones said