Deepfakes almost seamlessly manipulate a person’s appearance and voice using artificial intelligence. One of the many purposes that is given is to send audios by WhatsApp pretending to be Vegeta, for example. However, René García, a dubbing actor who voices the character, disagrees.
deepfakes It is an artificial intelligence technique that manipulates videos, images and voices of people to make them appear real. Although most of the time it is used on celebrities and with fraudulent intentions, it is also used to rejuvenate or even “revive” actors so that they play certain roles again, as they did with Luke Skywalker on Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. However, there are many who disagree with this technique, such as Rene Garciadubbing actor who gives the voice to Vegetawho recently found out that they were using his voice to send audios by WhatsApp.
The deepfakes They almost seamlessly manipulate a person’s appearance and voice using artificial intelligence, use unsupervised learning algorithms, and pre-existing videos or images. As this term has been expanding and improving over the years, there are already applications and pages on the internet that do it automatically. One of these is Fake You.
Fake You is a web page that helps you create audios with voices very similar to that of different celebrities and characters from movies, series, video games, anime, among several others. This platform has a community of collaborators who clone different voices in different languages, not only in English, but also in Portuguese and Spanish. This is where the dilemma comes in Rene Garcia and Mario Castanedawho gives voice to Goku. The platform gave the possibility of sending audio by WhatsApp with the voice of some characters from Dragon Ball Zwithout the authorization of the dubbing actors.
Neither Garcia neither Castaneda They were aware of this type of page or the use of their voices, since no one asked them for any type of authorization. So they responded and even talked about denouncing the page. After this became known, the Latin voices of Vegeta and Goku They are no longer available on the page. It is not known if it was to avoid legal problems or because of them.
These gentlemen do not have any authorization from me or from @ccp_mario to make use of our voice, because if they do it according to what I read on their page. They are going to get into a legal problem https://t.co/pBI9Yz5Egj
– Rene Garcia (@renegarcia900) March 2, 2022
The same was said by uber taxis… and Netflix’s Blockbuster…
The problem is not that they use Text to speak… the problem is that they didn’t even ask for authorization… let alone they are paying for the use of the voice…– Mario C Castañeda P. (@ccp_mario) March 8, 2022
It should be clarified that Fake You is not the only website that does this, but in case you want to know how it works, here we tell you:
You enter the page of Fake You and what will appear are some boxes to fill. The first is the category or language, here you can put games, anime, movies, real people, comics and superheroes, among many others. Then, depending on what you put and the options there are, you look for the type of voice or character you want (there is the possibility of putting the Argentine streamer, coscu). Below this there is a text box to complete with the message you want the character to say and to finish you put speak and that’s it.
Once you press speak, you have to wait a bit for the audio to load, since the more elaborate the phrase, the longer it will take. After that, it will give you the option to download it so you can send it to whoever you want.