It'll be possible to make new music featuring Whitney Houston, Elvis, Chester Bennington, et al.
On orthogonal planes, we'll see the rise of more virtual musicians with completely artificial voices (Gorillaz meets Hatsune Miku++) and voice correction for non-vocalists.
Source: I work on this tech and we'll be launching something very soon in this space.
https://www.sonantic.io/blog/helping-actor-val-kilmer-reclai...
In the near future, I imagine it'd be easy enough to take a snippet of audio and transfer a celebrity's voice to it, similar to what we can already do to images using StyleGAN or something similar.
Exciting times ahead!
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2011/07/darth-vader...
I think the vocoder on this one is a bit off, but these are so trivial to make.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki_Fujita
[3] https://getnews.jp/archives/255685
That might have been a poor choice financially for Fujita Saki given that the current estimated number of Hatsune Miku songs is in the hundreds of thousands, but Hatsune Miku not being encumbered by royalties probably contributed to her popularity.
Tom Waits and Bette Midler have won lawsuits against companies who used voice impersonators in their ads.
Interesting times.
Also Star Wars: This.
I don't find the idea of movies/music produced this way appealing at all. Rather see something recast (or new stories told with new characters) versus seeing this done for the sake of safe nostalgia sales.
Perhaps if JEJ feels it is time to step away from the character upon reflection, Disney might do some reflecting as well.
When they take a stab at Episodes 7 - 9 again in a few years, they'll probably incorporate Anakin's force ghost more too. Although I suppose they don't need the voice. Might need it for flashback though.
History is the information residual form the past events onto various forms of recording, and projected into human brains, forming a collective residual image of the past that causes the nowadays events.
When history can be reshaped, the human collectives would lost its directional momentum because the causes are no longer entirely intact.
God bless us, when our children finally lost their roots...
