Blog tagged as AI

Stealing The Future

22.08.24 04:36 PM - By Paul Boucher - Comment(s)

Some Video Game Producers Want To Steal The Future of Voice Actors

It used to be when a voice actor landed a contract with a video game company like Electronic Arts, Activision, or Disney, the results could be career-altering and, sometimes, even life-altering. 

Importantly, they were mutually ...


Keep It Real

26.07.24 05:49 PM - By Paul Boucher - Comment(s)

I’ve had clients tell me lately they’re having a tough time convincing their customers to use a human narrator rather than AI and/or text-to-speech voices, the shiny new toy in their production arsenal.

Those same clients are also NOT leveling with their customers that AI is often more expensive, ti...

A New Normal?

10.07.24 04:20 PM - By Paul Boucher - Comment(s)

"...Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight..." ~ Bruce Cockburn

File this under “you don’t get if you don’t ask,” or “there is light at the end of the tunnel.”

 

As a voice actor with a 25-year history of narrating bilingual eLearning, it's easy to discern a new normal...


AI's Galloping Evolution And The Adaptation Challenge

14.05.24 02:49 PM - By Paul Boucher - Comment(s)

So yesterday brought another iterative development that is genuinely another leap in the AI technology changing our lives, and livelihoods.

This is the latest version of ChatGPT, ChaptGPT 4o, the “o” in the name standing for Omni.


This is not an either/or reflection.


One of the most talked about new f...



On The Subject of AI

22.04.24 02:54 PM - By Paul Boucher - Comment(s)

It seems lately that every day provides an opportunity to consider AI and the ethics around it.

Last week, for example, I learned that a client who’s moved into an AI-related business was using a portion of a past French narration in a presentation demonstrating the capabilities of their AI to switc...