Proposed Survey Statements
1) Is it acceptable to use AI when it allows you/us to offer our existing services with greater accuracy, quality, or speed. (For example, automated proofing, automated de-breathing, lip-smack removal)?
2) Is it acceptable to use AI to create voiceover scripts for demo content? (For example, using Chat GPT to generate a demo script)
3) Is it acceptable to use AI to offer alternative takes - still with your likeness and using your original performance as a basis. (For example, AI-based adjustments to pace/tone)?
4) Is it acceptable to use AI to create guide reads, provided the final recording uses a real voice? (For example, a client chooses you for a project but would like an AI guide read with your likeness whilst they put the visuals together)
5) Is it acceptable to use AI for content that is not feasible to make with a real human voice? (For example, licensing your likeness for a specific company's enquiry-bot that requires on-the-fly generation of audio)?
6) Is it acceptable for AI to be used for recordings previously deemed financially impractical? (For example, school teachers using it for class projects).
A definition of 'Financially impractical' for this question: "Most professional voiceover artists would not make more than 2% of their income undertaking this type of work".
7) Is it acceptable for AI to be used for tasks that no professional voice artist would want to undertake? (For example, a 200k-word script for a thesaurus app?).
We could later better define what these tasks could entail, but it's likely to be based on word count. Perhaps over 200k words, which would potentially take over two solid weeks in a recording studio.
8) Is it acceptable for a professional voice artist to voice a script and then map the recording to a younger version of their own voice?
9) Is it acceptable for a professional voice artist to voice a script and then map the recording onto the likeness of their child's voice?
10) Is it acceptable for a professional voice artist to use a clone of themselves, if they can no longer voice for medical reasons, or if they are temporarily unable to perform due to illness?
11) Is it acceptable for a professional voice artist to offer recordings they've made but mapped into different timbres, ages and genders, using speech-to-speech technology? So the voice artist would still make a human performance of the script but it would be mapped to another likeness.
12) Is it acceptable for a professional voice artist to leave their voice likeness in their will, and their beneficiaries use AI to provide voice services using their likeness?
Note: If this is permissable, over time this could mean a significant proportion of voiceover artists were no longer alive, and instead owned by license holders or companies.
13) Is it acceptable to use AI tools to add watermarks to audio to later detect potential breach of use?