Village voice articles
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Voice actor Jason Griffith reacts to Keanu Reeves voicing Shadow in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 after years of voicing the character: 'It's a great choice!'
The character had been previously voiced by Griffith in Shadow the Hedgehog in the TV series Sonic X and video games Shadow the Hedgehog and more. The 43-year-old voice actor spoke with TMZ about Keanu's casting, revealing he thinks, 'It's a great choice.'. 'Shadow is now being voiced by Ted Theodore Logan, John Wick and Neo, so I think that's pretty good company to keep,' Griffith began.
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The magic of voices: Why we like some singers' voices and not others
Many famous singers have distinctive voices. But why do we prefer some singers to others? A team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has investigated what determines our preferences for singing voices. The results are published open-access in the journal Scientific Reports.
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AI Voice Cloning and Bank Voice Authentication: A Recipe for Disaster?
New advancements in generative AI voice cloning come at a time when banks are looking for additional ways to authenticate their customers – and they’re choosing your voice.