Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, has been released in the US. In an interview with The New Yorker , director Morgan Neville confirmed that Artificial Intelligence was used in three instances to replicate Bourdain’s voice in order to read his own quotes aloud.“If you watch the film, other than that line you mentioned, you probably don’t know what the other lines are that were spoken by the AI, and you’re not going to know,” he said.Neville explained the process of recreating Bourdain’s voice in an interview with GQ. “We fed more than ten hours of Tony’s voice into an AI model,” he said. “The bigger the quantity, the better the result.”According to Neville, the creative decision had been cleared by those closest to Bourdain.
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