Interactive Character Voices for Themed Entertainment

Game development

We build voices for characters guests interact with at theme parks, museums and venues, with the voice owner’s permission.

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Clients

Respeecher is trusted by industry leaders worldwide
  • Lucasfilm
  • Blumhouse productions
  • AloeBlacc
  • Calm
  • Deezer
  • Sony Interactive Entertainment
  • Sony Pictures Television
  • Edward Jones
  • Ylen
  • Iliad
  • Warner music France
  • Religion of sports
  • Digital domain
  • CMG Worldwide
  • Doyle Dane Bernbach
  • droga5
  • Sim Graphics
  • Veritone
  • Veritone

Media

Respeecher makes headlines around the world

For Parks, Venues, and Experience Teams

Real-time character interaction

Guests can ask the character a question and hear it answer on the spot, in its own voice. Not pre-recorded lines on an operator's cue.

Multilingual guest experiences

The same character greets and guides guests across several languages, using speech to speech.

Queue and wait-time experiences

Give guests a character to talk to, so that the wait becomes another part of the show.

Talking toys and interactive merchandise

Let kids talk to their favourite characters through voice-enabled plush toys, with spoken replies in the character’s own voice.

Character voices across events and platforms

One voice model lets you produce voiceovers for a festival, stadium or campaign, changing the names and lines for each occasion.
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Cases

Film, TV and Animation

The Mandalorian

Young Luke Skywalker rebuilt from decades-old recordings, line by line with Skywalker Sound
Dubbing and Localisation

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Darth Vader's voice generated in collaboration with James Earl Jones, including a localized variant
Game Development

Cyberpunk 2077

Viktor Vektor rebuilt with the family's permission after the actor's passing. Players could not tell

Why choose Respeecher 

 

Built for live guest experiences

Our voice work is in films, premium TV, and AAA games. For parks, venues, and activations, we’re just as particular about the sound.

Ethics and consent by design

We get permission from the rights holder or estate before working with a voice. And through our likeness workflow, the performer or estate reviews the content and signs off before it goes live. We don’t use your content or your guests’ data to train our models.

Built for a live floor

We can run the voice on hardware at the venue rather than depend on a connection. Smaller activations can run in the cloud, connected to your app, kiosk, phone line or in-room screen.

People who know the craft

Our sound engineers, synthetic speech artists and ML researchers work in DAWs and deliver to production deadlines.

Testimonials

Brady Corbet
The process was creatively fulfilling and wholly successful as a result of months of hard work and transparent communication between our performers, our mixers, and Respeecher’s excellent team of engineers— all the feedback from myself, our Hungarian team, and our sound department was taken into account, but more importantly the results exceeded our expectations—Respeecher helped us to perfect even the most nuanced elements of the Hungarian language; known to be one of the world's most difficult languages if one is not originally a native speaker. [...]

What Respeecher is doing will open up possibilities for performers to play characters from anywhere in the world whilst also honoring the nations those characters are from.
Michael Gracey
We were thrilled with the voice conversions from Respeecher. They kept us in the loop at every stage, refining the audio through multiple iterations and feedback rounds. Their dedication and problem-solving ensured we got results that both I and Robbie Williams himself were happy with.
Cyril Holtz
I am delighted with the result—the songs sound exactly as I envisioned them, adding new shades and hues to the story. Respeecher's sound team has proven to be both diligent and professional when it comes to dealing with very subtle aspects like pitch and accent peculiarities. “Emilia Pérez” turned out great, and I am grateful to the Respeecher's engineers.
Reid Hoffman
LinkedIn
Microsoft
Respeecher also matched my voice to Scott’s professional reading of the Impromptu text. The end result is a nearly perfect audio artifact with amazing intonation. It sounds flawlessly human—though a bit less of a match to “my” voice than the Vall-E recording—and most importantly, similarly didn’t require multiple days of my time to record. If we hadn’t prioritized releasing an early version to show folks what that sounded like, the Respeecher team was confident that with more iterations we could have gotten it near-perfect.
Bear Grylls
We worked with Respeecher to recreate my voice in Ukrainian to as part of our education initiative ‘BecomingX Ukraine’. The technology is phenomenal and the result is astounding – I never thought I’d hear myself speaking fluent Ukrainian! Well done and thank to all the team for all your incredible work you are doing. We’re forever grateful and proud to partner with you.
Jennifer Trent
We used Respeecher to de-age the voice of a well-known actor in one of our movies. We were nervous that it wouldn’t work very well since the actor is in her 80s and we needed to de-age her down to mid-forties. Even though there was such a huge age jump, the end result from Respeecher was amazing, and added a level of authenticity to our movie. Everyone from our director through our entire post team was excited to work with Respeecher. Hopefully we will be able to do so many more times in the future.
Halsey Burgund
We worked with Respeecher on a film called ‘In Event of Moon Disaster’ first shown at the Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival 2019. They helped us create a synthetic voice of Richard Nixon to bring to life a never-read contingency speech in case the Apollo 11 mission went badly. We created a highly realistic film, in a large part due to their work. ‘In Event of Moon Disaster’ shows the creative possibility of voice replacement technology as well as highlighting just how realistic deepfake technologies can be, acting as a civic engagement project for the public along with contextual and educational resources.
Ryan Steelberg
For Veritone, the most important thing is ensuring our clients get access to technology without compromising on the ability to protect, the delivery speed and quality, and in this case, of the generated content. Respeecher's technology meets both requirements and has a proven track record of working with tier one projects.
David Romberg
When I approached the team at Respeecher with a very sensitive and personal documentary project, I didn't know what to expect. I’m happy to say that it has been an amazing experience. They are extremely professional, ethically minded and are genuinely passionate about bringing their innovative technology to the world. Their approach to the voice cloning process is highly personal and transparent. As a documentarian, it was important to me that the approach was ethical and human focused. The Team at Respeecher delivered on their promises and I could not be happier with the results.
Abigail Savage
 
Respeecher is a remarkable tool for Sound Editors. It delivers very high-fidelity recreations of a target voice, with transparent performance-matching of its source. It blows text-to-speech out of the water! The effect is uncanny and incredibly effective and I can imagine a whole slew of uses going forward. I am very excited to have discovered Respeecher, and it will be my go-to for voice recreation in the future, without question.
Tim Jones
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Respeecher's source/target conversion of Mr. York's speaking voice demonstrably opens doors for the entertainment, education, and healthcare fields. Suffice it to say, it was an absolute honor to collaborate with them. Their brilliant accomplishment and timely delivery have allowed our humble project to be a success, exceeding our expectations for what's even possible.
Michael York
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I am very grateful to Respeecher for giving my words and work a whole new lease on life. The technique involved is as ingenious as it is amazing, and promises a great future for all those involved in voice work. With Respeecher, the quality of the re-worked passages is indistinguishable from the original. History comes almost miraculously alive again. I heartily endorse this product.
Joseph López Osorio
Discovering Respeecher was the highlight of our project. They agreed to work with the task even when our training data was not of the best quality. The result was fantastic, and the level of detail was just outstanding.
Edgardo Rivera
Working with Reespecher was a unique experience. Their attentiveness to detail and dedication to this project allowed us to reconnect with one of our lost narration idols in Puerto Rico 'Manuel Rivera Morales' on a new level. It gave his family and PR a glimpse of what could have been if he was still alive and narrating all sorts of Olympic sports games. It was truly magical to see this project come alive.
Joshua Madoff
Working with Respeecher has been incredible. Their team was meticulous and patient, walking us through the process of developing an accurate model... and the final result was nothing short of miraculous. It really sounds like we’re hearing our (deceased) subject speaking again. Something I never would have thought was possible.
James Tumminia
From the introduction to Respeecher’s innovative and state-of-the-art products to the thorough and quick technical support, I immediately felt that I found the perfect partner and technology for my projects’ needs. During our discussions, the team offered other creative options that assured me we were on the same page and had my project’s success as a top priority. The Respeecher team members are consummate professionals.
Sophie Robinson
Making a film which was so sensitive we needed a company who understood the sensibilities and ethical issues we were dealing with. From the first meeting with them, Respeecher acted with respect and professionalism, delivered what we wanted brilliantly, efficiently and to spec.
Steve Isaacs
When Legion Creative took on the challenge of bringing MTV’s Kurt Loder back to his mid ’90s glory for the Showtime original Yellowjackets, we needed a resource to bring his voice in line with his de-aged visual appearance. Respeecher worked quickly, with clear communication and helped us achieve the time-warping magic we were looking for.
Derek Kedell
Using the Respeecher technology as a powerful filter for our recorded dialogue allowed us to quickly solve a voice-over challenge that could have completely derailed our production timeline and set us back several months. Their easy-to-use online web interface allowed us to resolve our problem in a matter of weeks and with very minimal impact on our overall schedule. Their friendly staff were extremely responsive to our feedback and provided excellent guidance on the use of the amazing technology.
Jacob Mosler
Respeecher brought the voice of WILT CHAMBERLAIN sonically back to life allowing Wilt to posthumously narrate his own documentary series GOLIATH [Showtime & Paramount+]. Our experience working with their team was a pleasure from start to finish. They embraced the creative challenge of building a practically perfect replication of Wilt's voice from hours of archival to carefully match the narration led by our voiceover actor's performance of Wilt's own words selected from his books. Their technicians paid fastidious attention to detail and contineud to work with our directors feedback to adjust the nuance of Wilt's voice until it was seemingly flawless. The Estate of Wilt Chamberlain authorized our team to create a 3-hour series documenting his extraordinary life; so naturally it was a huge relief when we shared the final WILT converted VO narration and received a unanimous approval from his family. Thank you again to Respeecher! Your professionalism, commitment to detail and excellence surpassed our expectations. Your nuanced work brought Wilt's voice back to life will be cherished in GOLIATH eternally.
Bev Standing
Working with Respeecher has provided me to control of where my voice is used, the opportunity to provide consent to my voice being used and receveing compensation.

VOICE DEMO

AI Voice of Richard Nixon | Respeecher
Richard Nixon
Original voice
Richard Nixon
AI voice

Opportunities for your experience

1.

Real-time conversations instead of pre-recorded lines

An operator can choose a recorded response, but can’t change what it says. With our voices connected to your conversational system, the character can answer guests’ questions about directions or ride wait times, quiz them on trivia or take them through a story.

2.

One character across

every language

Our speech-to-speech lets a character speak several languages without changing its voice. A park can offer greetings and directions in guests’ languages; a touring activation can change languages at each stop.

3.

Carry the character

across every touchpoint

A guest might meet a character in the park, then hear them again on the app or over the phone. Holographic displays and in-room narration use that same voice.

Awards

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How we work

1.

You share the recordings or the character brief

  • Send us your target voice recordings: existing audio, archival material, whatever you have.
  • We evaluate the quality and advise on what is needed.
2.

We get permission and sign a contract

  • Before anything is built, we secure consent from the voice owner or estate.
  • Every voice is used with full permission. No exceptions.
3.

You get the first results within 2 weeks

  • We build the voice model and deliver the first conversions.
  • You review and give feedback.
4.

We deliver and integrate

  • We refine the output and deliver the final voices or direct access to the model,
  • then integrate with your conversational system and deployment setup, local or cloud.
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Take your projects to the next level with Respeecher's cutting-edge voice solutions

FAQ

You bring the character. If you already have a conversational system, we work with it; if not, we help set one up. With the voice owner’s permission, we build a model of the character’s voice. The system writes the reply to a guest’s question. Our model turns it into speech in the character’s voice.

Real-time. The character answers guests live, without an operator choosing which recording to play. The voice is generated as the conversation unfolds, pauses included.

Yes. Guests hear the same character, whichever language it speaks. Their voice remains recognizable, whether the character appears at a park abroad or travels with a touring activation.

Both. If the venue’s Wi-Fi is unreliable, we run the voice on local hardware so it won’t cut out with the connection. For a smaller activation or marketing campaign, we can use the cloud instead.

We get permission before building a voice. Rights owners and talent approve the project, and our platform creates and stores a signed agreement covering the creation and use of the voice model. We use only authorized data and follow the applicable union and guild requirements.

Yes. Before launch, we test how the system handles peak traffic and what happens if the connection drops.

Yes, with permission. For an established character, we work with the IP owner and the voice owner or estate. For a celebrity guide, we work with the talent directly. The voice is used only within the scope you agree on.