Troy Baker is promoting a new NFT company. Voice actor who starred in Our Last One, Persona 4and hundreds of other roles across video games, animation and movies, have partnered with VoiceverseNFT. This is a company that claims to offer “the world’s first VoiceNFTs”. Baker announced the partnership via a tweet from his personal account.
I am collaborating with @VoiceverseNFT to explore ways we can together give new creators new tools to create new things and give everyone the opportunity to own and invest in the IP they create.
We all have stories to tell.
You can hate.
Or you can create.
What will it be? pic.twitter.com/cfDGi4q0AZ– Troy Baker (@TroyBakerVA) January 14, 2022
In case Troy Baker deleted it, here’s a screenshot of the tweet.
Exactly what VoiceNFT is, and how Troy Baker is involved beyond promoting NFT, remains unclear. According to the company website, VoiceNFT is a “2nd generation” NFT that is “built with AI”. It gives buyers “ownership of a single voice in the metaverse.” VoiceverseNFT states that these VoiceNFTs can be used with “in-game chats, zoom calls, podcasts, ads, YouTube and Tiktok, and create any content [you] aspire.” It promises that buyers will retain ownership of IPs created with VoiceNFT.How this content will be created is not detailed, although the website’s roadmap promises that users will have Accessible Voiceverse Lab, a “web-based [Text-to-Speech] tools” for creating content.
The first phase of Voiceverse’s roadmap primarily involves the sale of 8,888 “Origin” NFT profile pictures, featuring “unique voice samples generated by AI”. Final services planned include the ability to cast your own voice as an NFT, an “emotional footage” that allows VoiceNFT to express emotions and convert your voice into VoiceNFT over time done “automatically”. The technology is said to work with “all your favorite crypto games and communities.” ONE Twitter thread from VoiceverseNFT claims that VoiceNFTs will be able to generate custom voices for any purpose the owner desires without “additional legal work”. It also promises to pay royalties to voice actors who work with them to build their AI models. The company announced that it will move VoiceNFTs out of their current homes to a more “eco-friendly” blockchain that uses Proof-of-Stake technology to reduce the method’s much-criticized energy usage. convenient. When this will happen is not detailed.
Joining VoiceverseNFT also has voice actress CharletChung (who voices D.Va in Overwatch), and Twitch streamer Andy Milonakis, who is being promoted with Troy Baker to promote the new NFT skin. Game companies like that are also looking at NFT technology and cryptocurrencies, with Ubisoft, Square Enix, and Konami sold them.
As of 11 a.m. ET on January 14, 2022, Troy Baker has shared a Twitter thread detailing his NFT thoughts and stance.
hope I can help others to do the same. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. I am grateful to those who are passionate about their stance and not only feel safe expressing it, but have the means to do so.
The “hate/create” part can be a bit offensive…
– Troy Baker (@TroyBakerVA) January 14, 2022
