Subj : Re: Norm McDonald, Dead at 61
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Sep 23 2021 13:38:13

  Re: Re: Norm McDonald, Dead at 61
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri Sep 17 2021 07:49 am

 PF> The next legal battle in media will be voices of deceased actors. Actors,
 PF> by the nature of their craft, have lots of recorded samples of their
 PF> voice. 

 PF> The years he did Weekend Update should be enough to feed any sort of text
 PF> to speech generator in his voice.

I'd heard that Majel Roddenberry (who played Lwaxanna Troi and provided the voice for the ship computer) made phonetic recordings of her voice before she died, so that the producers could continue using her voice to make speech.

Nightfox

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