Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“Star Wars” fans are still talking about Luke Skywalker’s return in the penultimate episode of “The Book of Boba Fett,” and they’re still talking about his voice.
In the episode, CGI Young Luke trains Grogu the ways of the Jedi.But Mark Hamill did not return to record any dialogue. Instead, Ukrainian company ReSpeecher was responsible for recreating and de-aging the actor’s voice.
Hamill’s voice was completely synthesized using old recordings.And how exactly did they pull it off?Alex Serdiuk, the company’s co-founder and co-CEO spoke with Variety from Kyiv, just days before Russian bombs fell on the city, about how ReSpeecher was used on both “The Book of Boba Fett” and “The Mandalorian.” Explains Serdiuk, “We heard recordings from 30 to 40 years ago, and those recordings were not good.” The main challenge for the team was to be able to squeeze imperfect data, something that sounded very rigid and have it mixed to make it sound like something had been recorded recently.The solution lay in the archives.
Serdiuk and his team pulled recordings of Hamill from old ADR sessions, video games and old audiobook recordings from the period.
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