The Respeecher team in their Kyiv office before the war in Ukraine. Credit: Respeecher. James Earl Jones played Darth Vader for 45 years. But this September, he officially stepped down from the role.

Ben Burtt created the sound of my childhood. He gets that a lot. “Yeah, I hear that often,” says the legendary sound designer, creator of the lightsabre swish and Darth Vader’s electronic wheezing, ...

How many actors does it take to play Darth Vader? Well, there’s David Prowse, the original physical Vader in the original trilogy. Then there’s James Earl Jones providing his iconic voice. In Revenge ...

Some of the commenters seem to have missed this: "Respeecher created a voice model that could be "performed" vocally by another actor using the company's speech-to-speech technology." There is still a ...

Stage and screen actor James Earl Jones, who won Tony Awards for "The Great White Hope" and "Fences," and whose majestic basso profundo voice would become internationally recognized as the villainous ...

The Skywalker Saga, witness the intriguing encounter between young Anakin and Darth Vader. Explore a unique twist on the ...

Over the weekend I went to see the 40th-anniversary re-release of Return of the Jedi (released a month before its actual anniversary for some reason). It’s weird because it seems like a movie I’ve ...

Yes, that’s me breathing. It came about because the script described Darth Vader as having a respirator, some kind of breath mask with a life support system. That’s about as far as the description ...