Historical characters and historical events
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 9:41 am
The focus of events can be extremely diverse – from sports to cultural, historical or educational projects. Social campaigns also have great potential. The media often avoid writing about business, but if you are conducting a social campaign that aims to preserve a cultural landscape or architectural monuments, or a museum can use audio from archives, for example, the voice of Maria Prymachenko to voice her works. This can be done thanks to our technology. It can be a campaign from you, your organization or your brand.
Historical characters and historical events
Have you heard about the case with the book about switzerland telegram data Vasyl Stus? It was a high-profile case. The odious character Viktor Medvedchuk tried to ban the book, which caused the Barbra Streisand effect: because of the attempted ban, Vakhtang Kipiani's book attracted even more attention and sold out in a matter of days. My big dream was to voice this book in Stus's voice. It would have required a tremendous amount of work - finding a narrator, getting the rights to use the voice, etc. But it could have become an additional powerful campaign.
On one of the slides you see that we won an Emmy for reproducing the voice of President Nixon. This was a very careful and important moment. We do not cooperate with political campaigns. You have probably seen funny videos on the Internet where famous people talk nonsense. For example, military tasks are voiced in the voice of the Commander-in-Chief or President Zelensky. This is a threat. Open access to voices for such purposes is wrong.
If you have a social purpose or mission and want to obtain the right to use the voice of a famous person, it is important to approve the text that will be voiced. For example, if you want to use the voice of Vasyl Stus, you need to approve the text so that Stus's voice does not sound nonsense. This is an important ethical point, and Respeecher sees its mission in communicating and explaining the importance of ethical use of voices. Technology can be useful, but it must be used carefully, like a knife that can create incredible works of art, but can also cause harm.
Historical characters and historical events
Have you heard about the case with the book about switzerland telegram data Vasyl Stus? It was a high-profile case. The odious character Viktor Medvedchuk tried to ban the book, which caused the Barbra Streisand effect: because of the attempted ban, Vakhtang Kipiani's book attracted even more attention and sold out in a matter of days. My big dream was to voice this book in Stus's voice. It would have required a tremendous amount of work - finding a narrator, getting the rights to use the voice, etc. But it could have become an additional powerful campaign.
On one of the slides you see that we won an Emmy for reproducing the voice of President Nixon. This was a very careful and important moment. We do not cooperate with political campaigns. You have probably seen funny videos on the Internet where famous people talk nonsense. For example, military tasks are voiced in the voice of the Commander-in-Chief or President Zelensky. This is a threat. Open access to voices for such purposes is wrong.
If you have a social purpose or mission and want to obtain the right to use the voice of a famous person, it is important to approve the text that will be voiced. For example, if you want to use the voice of Vasyl Stus, you need to approve the text so that Stus's voice does not sound nonsense. This is an important ethical point, and Respeecher sees its mission in communicating and explaining the importance of ethical use of voices. Technology can be useful, but it must be used carefully, like a knife that can create incredible works of art, but can also cause harm.