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The Corporate Read Is Leaving the Casting Brief. A Marketplace Analysis Says Acting Is What Clients Want Now

Published September 25, 2026October 6, 2026 Priya Raman AI Voices, casting, NO FAKES Act, SAG-AFTRA, The Voice Realm, voice acting

Two years of casting briefs, a listening study, a NAVA survey and eighteen months of law point one way: AI took the flat read, and acting is the job now.

A Tokyo recording studio seen from the control room: a mixing desk in the foreground and, through the glass, an empty booth with a stool, a music stand holding script pages and a reading lamp left on

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Atlus Recast a Late Actor’s Role With a Living One. In 2026, That Is a Decision

Published September 21, 2026 Owen Castellano Atlus, James Earl Jones, NO FAKES Act, Persona 4 Revival, recasting, Ryotaro Okiayu, Unsho Ishizuka, voice cloning

Unshō Ishizuka died in 2018. Atlus could have cloned his Dōjima. It hired Ryōtarō Okiayu instead. What that choice says about a voice after its owner is gone.