A generative AI version of James Earl Jones' iconic Darth Vader voice is now available in Fortnite. “We hope that this ...

James Earl Jones's estate allowed "Fortnite" to use the late actor's voice for its Darth Vader character. Epic Games had to ...

It didn't take long after Epic Games unleashed famous Star Wars Sith lord Darth Vader into the game Fortnite -- complete with ...

The move comes after the legendary 'Star Wars' voice actor sold the rights to his voice to AI firm Respeecher before his ...

Alex Serdiuk, the CEO of Respeecher, has opened up on how Hollywood is scaling up its use of synthetic voice and voice ...

Fortinite's newest Star Wars collaboration now involves Darth Vader as an AI character thanks to ElevenLabs and Google Gemini ...

Epic Games' new voice-interactive Fortnite character uses Google's Gemini AI to recreate James Earl Jones' iconic voice for the first time in-game.

Beloved actor James Earl Jones died less than a year ago, but in a world with access to (or a flood of) AI generation, his ...

Fortnite' players will be able to chat with Darth Vader, in a move made in "close consultation" with Jones' family.

Update: Epic has deployed a hotfix to address Vader's profanity.

Fortnite is a digital playground for millions of players, many of them young. That people would immediately try to get the ...

Epic Games got permission from James Earl Jones' estate to use AI for a conversational, in-game bot. However, it's making ...