Why Voice Actors Became Essential to Gaming — and Why Their Jobs Are at Risk - video Dailymotion

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00:01The voice of the gaming industry is under distress.

00:04Artificial intelligence, which has been at the center of public debate as both the usher of a new age of tech and the destroyer of jobs,

00:12threatens to put many of our favorite voice actors out of work.

00:16Thankfully, the SAG-AFTRA union has been fighting back.

00:19Yahoo! reports that Zeke Alton, a voice actor and member of the SAG-AFTRA Interactive Contract Negotiating Committee,

00:26said that actors and writers aren't asking for an end to AI technology.

00:31Instead, they want a baseline agreement that if their work is used, a company will ask for consent and pay for that use,

00:38as well as provide transparency around the use of data for training or machine learning.

00:43According to SAG-AFTRA, the Interactive Agreement covers off-camera, voiceover performers, and on-camera,

00:49motion capture, stunt performers, stunt coordinators, singers, dancers, puppeteers, and background performers.

00:55When you take the humanity out of art, the art will fall flat.

00:59Video games are a collaborative team effort of people that range from huge international companies

01:04to small indie teams with no budget and an endless passion for games.

01:08We've all played amazing games which fell flat because of bad voice acting,

01:12or games that went above and beyond their technological capabilities to deliver a strong story thanks to their talented casts.

01:20VoiceOver is the soul of the gaming industry and we must not let it disappear.

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