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ElevenLabs adds AI voice of celebs to new digital narrator — but is it safe?
ElevenLabs is expanding the voice library of Reader to include AI voices of Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Sir Laurence Olivier.
A week ago, ElevenLabs, the AI voice startup founded by former Google and Palantir engineers, made headlines with its first major consumer-centric product – a Reader app. For the family members of the late stars, the AI-based voice recreation is an opportunity to make sure that the celebs’ legacies live on, with their existing fans getting a way to reconnect with them, and new-age users getting a way to discover them. Sam Sklar, who handles growth marketing at ElevenLabs, told VentureBeat that the company retains full control over celebrity voices and makes them available only on the Reader app, which has been designed in such a way that users can only convert digital text into AI narration for individual consumption — rather than further sharing or downloading.
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