![]() "The Book of Boba Fett" season finale releases Wednesday February 9, 2022, on Disney+. Or, you know, they could just hire a voice actor instead. Given how much the visual effects have improved, convincingly recreating a young Luke Skywalker on screen (at least, until he opens his mouth), the voice-cloning technology could definitely use some work before Young Luke shows up in the "Star Wars" universe again. In "The Book of Boba Fett," however, he delivers entire monologues to his padawan Grogu, and it just sounds wrong. The fake vocal work was fine on "The Mandalorian," where Luke only spoke a line or two before the credits rolled. Even though his vocal tone and pronunciation is dead-on to the point that it enters the uncanny valley and becomes unsettling, the lack of inflection means that it never emerges from the other side of the valley and becomes truly convincing. Questions don't really sound like questions. The big problem with the delivery in the "Book of Boba Fett" episode is inflection - digital Luke sounds just like Hamill circa the early 1980s, but vocal inflections and emotion are missing. It's also possible that Disney is using "The Book of Boba Fett" as an opportunity to refine its use of digital voice cloning technologies like Respeecher, with the long-term goal of making voice actors entirely optional. Maybe Hamill just didn't have the time, though he does plenty of other voiceover work and could probably squeeze in a few hours to step back into the shoes of Skywalker. Instead of hiring Hamill to record new dialogue and using some digital trickery to bring up the pitch and remove a bit of the gravel, the folks at Lucasfilm digitally created new lines of dialogue like the world's most complicated Speak & Spell. 'The Mandalorian' composer Ludwig Gransson explained to. There was also praise for the music accompanying the Skywalker cameo. I was able to get clean recordings of that, feed it into the system, and they were able to slice it up and feed their neural network to learn this data." The actor who doubled as Hamill in the scene that featured the de-aged Skywalker was Max Lloyd-Jones, and along with voicing the character, Hamill was also on the set supervising the cameo, according to Favreau. We had clean recorded ADR from the original films, a book on tape he'd done from those eras, and then also Star Wars radio plays he had done back in that time. ![]() ![]() So I had archival material from Mark in that era. ![]() "It's a neural network you feed information into and it learns. ![]()
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