# How good are celebrity deep-fake voices **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 20, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-are-celebrity-deep-fake-voices/1018586 "2025-05-20T16:13:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-are-celebrity-deep-fake-voices/1018586/1 "2025-05-20T16:13:35Z")
I know that AI voices are better than they were, but what if I want “Morgan Freeman” read my grocery list to me or “Sean Connery” read me a bedtime story. I guess this is two questions: Do these exist? How many celebrities have had their voices deep-faked. How do I find one? How close would a deep-fake be to fooling someone? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-are-celebrity-deep-fake-voices/1018586/2 "2025-05-20T16:25:17Z")
[Bing Videos](https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=best+celebrity+deep+fake+voices&mid=D302577843150C7F356AD302577843150C7F356A&FORM=VIRE) has some examples if you would like to see for yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-are-celebrity-deep-fake-voices/1018586/3 "2025-05-20T17:48:51Z")
Well. I can easily be fooled. Especially a short quip or few words. Some live people can imitate very well. (Have you seen Ariana Grande mimic persons?) So, if in real life its a easy thing, I’m sure “deep fake” (whatever that means) would be easy to accomplish. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-are-celebrity-deep-fake-voices/1018586/4 "2025-05-20T19:53:19Z")
Well, it’s good enough that Fortnite (the kids’ video game) now lets you [voice chat with Darth Vader](https://www.fortnite.com/news/this-will-be-a-day-long-remembered-speak-with-darth-vader-in-fortnite), which of course immediately[led to the Sith Lord dropping F-bombs](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/05/the-empire-strikes-back-with-f-bombs-ai-darth-vader-goes-rogue-with-profanity-slurs/), and then [a labor complaint from the SAG-AFTRA union](https://www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-statement-fortnites-use-ai-darth-vader-voice-and-ulp-filing) for using AI voices without first bargaining with them. You can create a voice clone of any recording using services like [https://elevenlabs.io/voice-cloning](https://elevenlabs.io/voice-cloning), just by uploading an audio sample. It worked well when I tried it with Morgan Freeman, family members, etc. It was either free or very cheap, and just takes a few minutes. Anybody can do it without any technical know-how. It’s not just voices, either; it’s too easy to deepfake convincing videos too. Politicians and pop stars etc. have apparently really been struggling with them: [Deepfake statistics 2025: how frequently are celebrities targeted?](https://surfshark.com/research/study/deepfake-statistics). People clone Elon Musk a lot, Trump, Taylor Swift, Tom Hanks, etc. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-are-celebrity-deep-fake-voices/1018586/5 "2025-05-21T14:11:12Z")
I’ve noticed some Facebook ads/reels that sound remarkably like David Attenborough, in one case praising in detail a US Episcopal church’s denunciation of DJT, and in another pushing some ED pill.