Marvel Mastermind Stan Lee’s Voice & Likeness Resurrected By AI Company ElevenLabs
Stan Lee's estate has partnered with ElevenLabs to resurrect his voice and likeness using artificial intelligence. The collaboration will allow Lee's voice to narrate books and be featured in various media. This initiative highlights the increasing integration of AI technology in Hollywood.
- ▪ElevenLabs will use AI to recreate Stan Lee's voice for narrating books in the Eleven Reader app.
- ▪The first book to be narrated will be Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, with more titles planned for the future.
- ▪Lee's likeness will also be available for use in the ElevenLabs Image & Video Marketplace.
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Stan Lee in 2016 Getty Stan Lee‘s estate is embracing the superpower of artificial intelligence. The Marvel Comics mastermind’s voice and likeness will be resurrected by ElevenLabs, the AI audio company valued at $11 billion earlier this year. Lee died in 2018, aged 95. Under a deal with the Stan Lee Universe, the comic book creator’s cloned voice will narrate some of his favorite books in the Eleven Reader app. Stan Lee Book of the Month Club will debut with Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, with another 11 books being adapted over the coming year.
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