AI project with major anime talent agency will allow for recreation of voice actors’ voices and translation into other languages.
Aoni Production, one of Japan’s most storied anime voice actor talent agencies, has announced a partnership with CoeFont, a Tokyo-based tech company that describes itself as a “global AI voice platform.”
We will only be developing multilingual AI voices [for projects in] non-acting fields, properly differentiating the activities of AI voice technology and voice actors.”
There’s also the question of how much demand there is among overseas anime fans for English-language dialogue spoken in the voice of Japanese voice actors.