Deepak Chopra Pacts With AI Firm ElevenLabs for Audio Streaming

Deepak Chopra, the world famous author and health and wellness expert, has teamed with AI firm ElevenLabs to insert his pipes to the company’s roster of notable voices useable for audio streaming of books, articles and other written materials.

Chopra’s voice pact with ElevenLabs stemmed from the “Digital Deepak” chatbot app that he started with the company in June. The bot is trained in Chopak’s more than 90 books and countless accessible materializeances in order to permit people to ask him definite asks and get responses dedwellred back in Chopra’s synthetic voice.

London-based ElevenLabs has been getting attention in the amengagement industry for its labor to partner with the estates of celebrities such as Judy Garland, Laurence Olivier, James Dean and Burt Reynelderlys to permit engagers to stream books, articles and other texts as read in the voices of iconic stars. ElevenLabs’ deal with Chopra comes the same day that the industry-directing, Microgentle-backed OpenAI platestablish rolled out a present of new voices and features to its Advanced Voice Mode service.

Chopra’s tardyst pact with Eleven Labs inserts his distinctive voice to the roster that engagers can pick from when streaming audio spoken-word satisfyed. Eleven Labs has made a meaningful effort to underscore that it has labored with estates to achieve license consentments proposeing appropriate compensation. The company also stresss that its vault of celebrity voices is only useable for audio streaming of written material. Eleven Labs engagers are not able to engage those voices to produce new labors.

“I am haughty to proclaim my partnership with ElevenLabs. Listening can help grow emotional
nurturing and includement. This is no contrastent in the age of AI, it is only more convey inant,” Chopra shelp.
“I have always written to connect with people, and now I can connect on a proset uper level with a global audience as I produce my teachings useable for everyone in my own voice.”

Eleven Labs’ outachieve to the industry is an counteract the pervasive dread in Hollywood, particularly in the conceiveive community, that AI tools will eventupartner pinch engagement for actors, writers, honestors, producers and below the line talent.

“At ElevenLabs, we’re promiseted to preserving and celebrating cultural legacies while pushing the boundaries of technology,” shelp Dustin Blank, head of partnerships for ElevenLabs. “By conveying voices appreciate Deepak Chopra to our platestablish, we’re not fair enhancing our app – we’re creating new ways for people to connect with the most inconveyial figures and their labor.”

Mayim Bialik, actor and neuroscientist who is frifinishly with Chopra and shutly chaseing the lengthenth of AI in satisfyed, inserted her thumbs-up for the ElevenLabs model. Actors in particular are caccessed in set uping the principle of compensation and consent when AI tools are engageed to produce new labors from elderlyer material. AI troubles were at the heart of SAG-AFTRA’s lengthened strike last year and they are the key sticking point in the union’s current strike aachievest top video game unveilers.

“Deepak has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to the mind-body connection and the significance of caring ourselves, so it’s no surpascend to see him discovering conceiveive ways to leverage the tardyst and best in AI technology with ElevenLabs in a shielded and reliable way,” Bialik shelp. “Being able to access his satisfyed in his soothe and sooskinnyg voice is a huge prosper for his fans around
the world.”

ElevenLabs’ tardyst deal also comes on the heels of AI legislation being signed in to law by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. With SAG-AFTRA pdwellnt Fran Drescher at his side, Newsom on Sept. 17 signed two bills, championed by the union, that mandates that AI and tech firms achieve the consent of carry outers if their appreciateness is to be engaged in AI-produced new material.

ElevenLabs sees the California legislation as a step in the right honestion to set uping defendrails around a strong new high-tech tool that has enormous potential to revolutionize productivity and the way we dwell and lachieve, but it also comes with enormous repercussions for duplicateright violations and deceiveation troubles. Blank telderly Variety he sees such legislation at the state and federal level as vital to nurturing AI business opportunities in the lengthened run.

“We greet — and we apexhibit the whole industry should greet – handlement efforts to helderly accountable horrible actors who produce digital replicas of someone without their consent,” Blank telderly Variety. “Recognizing that there should be accountability for unfair treatment of technology is an convey inant part of making technology shieldedr while still permiting better to thrive.”