Jerry Garcia’s property has introduced his voice again from the lifeless by partnering with AI firm ElevenLabs to learn audiobooks, e-books, articles, poetry, fan tales, PDFs, and extra in 32 languages.
Along with recreating Garcia’s voice for the Iconic Listening Expertise on the ElevenReader app, the Jerry Garcia Basis has additionally thought of utilizing the mannequin for upcoming initiatives like narrated documentaries or audio artwork displays, in response to Billboard.
“My father was a pioneering artist, who embraced modern audio and visible applied sciences,” mentioned Keelin Garcia, the Grateful Useless artist’s daughter and co-founder of the Jerry Garcia Basis. “Within the Nineteen Nineties, my dad launched me to the pc, digital artwork, and video video games. Once we traveled on live performance tour, we performed on Recreation Boy. At dwelling, we’d have enjoyable enjoying on the Macintosh within the studio the place my father created his first digital artwork, and housed his MIDI guitar.”
That is simply the newest instance of a late celeb’s voice being added to the ElevenReader app: earlier voice fashions embody actors like Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds, and Sir Laurence Olivier.
It’s additionally a part of a development through which late artists’ voices have been recreated for brand new works. Final yr, the surviving members of The Beatles used AI know-how to wash up a John Lennon vocal recording and launch their remaining tune, “Now and Then.” The property of Edith Piaf has additionally partnered with Warner Music to recreate the late singer’s voice for an upcoming biopic.