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AI GLOSSARY FOR VOICE ACTORS

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Definitions

 

Active Consent

Where a performer or their representative(s) sign waivers and actively agree to a condition. All other usage is excluded.

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Passive consent

Where a performer agrees to all usage as a default, unless they actively exclude certain conditions.

 

Technical Definitions

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Artificial Intelligence

Technology that enables computer systems able to perform complex tasks that normally require human intelligence. Examples of these tasks include visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.

 

Text-To-Speech (TTS)

An assistive technology that allows text to be converted into speech sounds which imitate a human voice. Sometimes called read-aloud technology.

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Speech-To-Speech (STS)

Voice conversion technology that allows the human speech of one person to sound as it was spoken by another. 

 

Types of AI Voice

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Voice Double or Voice Clone

A synthetic, adaptable copy of a person or licensed character’s voice.

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Composite Voice

A synthetic voice that is made up of multiple people’s vocal tracks.

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Fully Synthetic Voice

A synthetic voice that is not based on a human being.

 

Copyright Definitions

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Copyright

The exclusive legal right, given to an originator (or an assignee) to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same. 

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Intellectual Property (IP)

Intellectual property is what you create, invent or develop resulting from intellectual activity.  This can include  literary and artistic works, designs, symbols, names and images used in commerce.

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Moral Rights (droit moral)

The purpose of moral rights are to protect the reputation of the owner of a work. In Canada it includes protection of attribution, integrity and association. 

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Transformative Work (Rights)

A work that makes use of copyrighted material, but does so in a way that the resulting work is  deemed original.

 

Canadian Copyright Act

 

Copyright in Canada is an exclusive federal jurisdiction governed by the Canadian Copyright Act Currently, the CCA does not define an author specifically, but allows that first copyright of a work belongs to the author of it. 

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