Judy Garland passed away 55 years ago — but put any document, e-book, or file into a new AI app, and her voice will be what you hear reading to you.
Text-to-speech AI startup ElevenLabs announced on Tuesday that its free Reader App uses AI cloning to replicate the unique voices of Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Sir Laurence Olivier.
The app, which came out last week on iOS (with preregistration open for Android), takes any PDF file, article or text and transforms it into a voiceover that sounds like one of the iconic voices — complete with emotion and contextual understanding.
“It’s exciting to see our mother’s voice available to the countless millions of people who love her,” Liza Minnelli, daughter of Judy Garland and representative of the Garland Estate, said in the press release. Minnelli added, “Our family believes that this will bring new fans to Mama.”
ElevenLabs worked with the estates of the late stars to …