The Spanish Voice of Batman Says a US Platform Cloned Him. To File a Complaint, It Asked for More of His Voice

Claudio Serrano has been Batman in Spanish dubbing since 2005. He says a US AI platform now lists a profile with his name, his picture and a cloned clip of a voice presented as his. When he tried to claim it back, he says, the platform asked him to prove who he is by speaking into it.

Serrano made the complaint in a TikTok video. Infobae reported it on Monday, 12 October, and Las Noticias de la IA picked it up the same week. The platform isn’t named in either report, and neither says it has answered him. Voice Over Herald hasn’t named it either, because his account is his own and the company’s side isn’t on record.

A profile with his name on it

According to Infobae, the service shows a profile with Serrano’s name and image and an extract of a cloned voice that is presented as if it were him. He says it exists without his permission and without any payment.

Infobae's report, 12 October 2026 (page captured 13 October 2026). Image: Infobae

His warning was aimed at colleagues as much as at the company. “Seriously, be very careful about what you are giving away free to AI when it is protected by copyright,” he said in the video. Then he spelled out the stakes. “Nobody would like their work, or their greatest asset, in this case my voice, to be out there for anyone to use however they please.”

The risk he describes is the one every recognisable voice carries. Las Noticias de la IA quotes him adding: “Imagine that one day a message appears with your recognisable voice threatening someone important.”

Prove it’s you, with your voice

Then came the part that made his video travel. Serrano says that when he tried to complain, the platform asked him to pass a voice captcha to show that he is the person making the claim. In practice, Infobae points out, that means giving the service more recordings of the very asset he is trying to protect.

He compared the process to a victim of an assault being asked to go through it again to prove to a judge that it happened, both outlets report. He also questioned why a claim should have to be sent to a company based outside Spain.

His lawyers are working on it, he says, and he expects it to cost time, effort and money.

The voice Spain knows

Serrano’s voice is one that audiences in Spain hear in cinemas, series and games. Infobae lists his work, and the sheet below sets it out. Batman has been his since 2005.

Infobae draws the obvious conclusion. A known voice can lend a message, an ad or a recording a look of legitimacy it hasn’t earned. That is why an unauthorised clone of Batman’s Spanish voice is a different kind of problem from an anonymous one.

Where a complaint would go

Las Noticias de la IA adds legal context that is its own analysis rather than anything Serrano said. It notes that EU data protection law treats voice as personal data, that the rules can also reach companies outside the EU when they process Europeans’ data, and that Serrano could take a complaint to the Spanish data protection agency, the AEPD. It also warns that the route can take time and money, with no guarantee.

Serrano in a studio interview on his own YouTube channel. Image: Claudio Serrano Actor (YouTube)

The same outlet reports that PASAVE, Spain’s platform of voice artists’ associations and unions, explicitly bars the use of its actors’ recordings to train AI. That is a position on contracts, not a ruling on cases like Serrano’s.

Not a new worry in Spain

Spanish voice professionals were already organising on social media in 2023, when Qué! reported on a viral video from locutores and dubbing actors. “As of today, there is no legislation that protects us, so tech companies can do whatever they want with the recordings,” the video said, adding that they could use a voice “in endless jobs for which you won’t see a euro.”

The pattern has played out across Spanish-speaking countries since. Voice Over Herald reported on Gerardo Reyero, Liam Neeson’s Spanish voice, who got an extortion call, and on Mexico’s lower house telling platforms to pull AI-altered voices.

What is still open

We don’t know which platform it is, whether the clone was built from Serrano’s recordings, or whether the company will respond. Infobae notes that Google has opened its SynthID Detector to the public to spot AI-made audio, images and video, but that a negative result doesn’t prove a clip is authentic. Tools for making synthetic voices are getting easier to use, the outlet says, while the ways to claim, verify and remove unauthorised copies are still being built.

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For Serrano, the first step in that process was being asked for another recording.

Sources: Infobae, 12 October 2026; Las Noticias de la IA, 13 October 2026; Qué!, 17 February 2023. Quotations from Spanish sources are translated by Voice Over Herald. Hero photo: frame from Moobys’ video interview with Claudio Serrano (YouTube); studio photo: frame from Serrano’s own YouTube interview. Screenshot: Infobae page captured 13 October 2026.

Lee este artículo en español: La voz de Batman en España dice que una plataforma de EE. UU. lo clonó. Para reclamar, le pidió más de su voz

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