Gene Wilder’s Voice Resurrected by AI for Netflix’s Willy Wonka Competition Series; Late Actor’s Wife Gives Blessing

According to Variety, Netflix and ElevenLabs have used artificial intelligence to recreate the voice of Gene Wilder for a new unscripted competition show called "Wonka's The Golden Ticket." Wilder, who originated the live-action Willy Wonka in nineteen seventy-one and died in two thousand sixteen, will now narrate the show through AI voice synthesis. His widow has given her blessing for the project. It's a striking example of how AI voice technology can resurrect beloved performances—in this case, returning an iconic actor's voice to the character that made him famous.

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