Jar Jar Bricks

Pull to the dark side: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dIAmc7uislmSWK2gideWSxQ3aDogMN_Q/view?usp=sharing

Your strength: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_YnxOTFiJPmpVB49EWx7EnhSVb9Epitp/view?usp=sharing

Choices define you: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yyLi6NlFqa3KsbW42oZtoxYT2plkzWuV/view?usp=sharing

These probably aren’t all perfect but it’s a good starting place.

Okay, how about this then:

Luke: “Because you’re a Palpatine. Leia had sensed your pull to the dark side.”

Rey: “She didn’t tell me.”

Luke: "Leia knew your strength.”

Rey: “She still trained me.” (Rey mistaking mental fortitude for physical strength)

Luke: “Your choices define you. Your heart. Rey, some things are stronger than blood. Confronting fear is the destiny of a Jedi…”

This allows you to recontextualize the conversation between Rey and Leia at the beginning. Leia did know exactly what was going on with Rey, but she didn’t think she needed to say it aloud.

I still think it would be worth having it so that Luke tells Leia who Rey is as a ghost. So it could go:

Luke: “Because you’re a Palpatine. I told Leia after I joined the Force.”

Rey: “She didn’t tell me.”

Luke: “She wanted you to believe in yourself.”

Rey: “She still trained me.”

Luke: “Your choices define you. Your heart. Rey, some things are stronger than blood. Confronting fear is the destiny of a Jedi…”

I’m not so sure about replacing the whole thing. Mark does a pretty darn good job delivering the other lines. A lot better than what this bot could ever do. It might be better to just slip in the one line to replace the one about her sensing Ben’s death.

“Leia told me that she could best serve the galaxy in other ways…”
Delivery 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10GD8VqcZSUu7yWWt1KcGnAQy0vzlfnE1/view?usp=sharing
Delivery 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11UUDV4GuQZUfWx-O_T0ubg9Zu0Z1kODw/view?usp=sharing
Delivery 3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GH5G8G6P6wny9ZwfTPb8d3yqnuxLe5fM/view?usp=sharing

EDIT: I also like your line because it suggests the Force is what led her to make her choice. So I can also generate that. It’s up to Hal what we pick.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/180jQ6w8QikSeF5QcduW6zT3O9hSZ7rUH/view?usp=sharing

YAY! It sounds perfect. What did we want him to say again? About Leia choosing a different path?

Good news everyone! Mark did a really good job making these audiobooks. I currently have 1 downloaded (an hour long of him speaking) that I can synthesize into a voice clone. I’m thinking it should turn out good. If it doesn’t sound quite right for some reason, I’d be willing to download a second audiobook in this series to get 2 hours of content. That’s about how much I put into the Leia voice clone.

Does the Clone Wars have 5.1 audio which could isolate his voice better? Most of the sources I use in ElevenLabs are mono or stereo, anyway.

Where are these files located?

I shot you a PM, Hal.

Master Lawdog said:

Hey, Hal. Would you still be interested in having Kylo Ren say to Palpatine, “You’re just a clone” before saying, “What could you give me?”

I tried “You’re just a clone” with my Adam Driver model a while back. Due to the fact that it’s based on his TED talk, it doesn’t sound good quality-wise. Adam’s audio book doesn’t sound much like how Kylo speaks in the intro scene, either.

Plus, I agree with what somebody else said about this particular line. Without Palpy’s response “More than a clone, less than a man”, it would confuse the audience into thinking this dude is literally just a clone and not the actual Palpatine in a clone body.

That’s a cool resource, for sure. My main concern is having to extract voice lines from the rest of the sound in a show. I don’t have enough time for that lol.

It’s incredible to me how similar those are to Anakin’s Sith eyes in the prequels.

Once the Mark Hamill audiobooks come out I’ll try to figure out a way to record it so that I can put it into ElevenLabs. Hopefully we’ll be able to modify his flashback monologue however we want. As for the Leia lines, which ones are you interested in, Hal? Probably not the lightsaber one from the sounds of things, but “he’s too dangerous” and “I sense a great deal of uncertainty in you, Rey” are lines I haven’t heard any negative feedback about.

For the record, when I first heard “Rey, never be afraid of who you are” in theaters, I instantly recognized it as being edited in. So I guess none of these really bother me that much because I’m willing to give that one a pass, too.

Perhaps. It might be better to add these lines only to places that were previously awkward without Leia speaking. AKA Rey explaining how she got “distracted”, and when she says she’s going after Palpy.

I followed a tutorial to add in professional EQ to the audio clip: https://streamable.com/fyv0qp

I’m not sure how to do the rest of what you described.

Voice.ai is pretty crap tbh. You can definitely tell it has AI residue.

Who here is capable of doing that audio work you described?

It sounds perfect to me: https://streamable.com/1v7nuf

You don’t really have much control, you just generate it again if you don’t like what it spits out. There is a variability bar which if you put on the lower end can give you a more emotional response, at the cost of it being more “unstable”. Sometimes this allows her to whisper a bit.

What exactly do you mean by “loud”? As in, something that reducing the volume of it could fix, or the way that she is speaking is in a speaking voice instead of more of a whisper?

EDIT: This is probably the best you’re gonna get - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l-kgimh_BF1_1dlaYEu29EhNKMiz8Db-/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-rw-c2Pjq28ViL5KS0okc0GxZnU8oQVq/view?usp=sharing

DominicCobb said:

I like adding a line when Leia gives Rey the saber back but the tone of the delivery in the mockups there just don’t match for me.

This delivery is better imo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16BhRukixeGwe12r3KdhGqIuaFhh52urn/view?usp=sharing

I like that idea Nev. Or maybe he says, “I’ve foreseen it”. Once I got Mark’s voice loaded stuff like this will be possible.

You can definitely interpret it that Luke is fighting to keep on living. I definitely do. It’s only when he sees the twin suns that he realizes that the future is now secure without him. Having Obi-Wan’s line makes his conclusion more explicitly clear. Perhaps Luke could have fought to live on, but that would not be the Jedi-like thing to do. He did everything that he needed to in order to aid the Resistance.

Lol Hal

I think the simplicity of a callback to ANH is enough. To become a Force ghost, you’ve gotta “let go” of your personal desire to live on. That’s a Sith thing.

Here’s a mockup of what I stated earlier about making it clear how Rey learns Force healing (and therefore why it’s rare; it’s ancient):

https://streamable.com/2pmfik

Definitely needs audio work (a little echo/reverb) to make it sound like she’s in the cave with that line.

This certainly isn’t my edit, but I’d like to throw my two cents into a few of these.

EddieDean said:

• We also talked about Rey’s crackly saber actually shorting out at some point - did anything get finished there?

I’d love to see this, in addition to some lightning shooting out of Rey’s hand at Finn during the duel. Both of these would give Rey further reason to abandon everything and go to Ahch-To. The lightsaber shorting out she would blame herself for - since clearly her Force healing didn’t fully restore the crystal. And then if she did that to Finn she would feel like she’s putting her friends in danger just by being around them.

• Audio effects suggesting that force healing (“the power to prevent those we love from death”) is more of a darkside power could help explain why it’s not more commonly known or used.

I think the filmmaker’s intention here was that Force healing was described in the ancient Jedi texts. It makes sense that the Jedi in the prequel era wouldn’t condone this ability because of the whole “will of the Force” and “train[ing] yourself to let go of what you fear to lose” stuff. This ability doesn’t make sense as a darkside one because it is truly selfless; you’re giving some of your own life to somebody else. Palpatine uses the dark side version of this ability to suck the dyad out of Ben and Rey. A better solution, in my opinion, would be to create a Rey voice clone and have her say under her breath “I read in the Jedi texts…” as she is approaching the snake. As for why Kylo can use this ability later on, the easiest explanation is because of the dyad.

• I’d love to have Kylo tell Han’s ghost/vision/memory “I love you” before Han replies “I know”, preceding Kylo throwing away his saber. Poetry yes, but also a beautiful inversion of how it was first used.

I thought the same thing when I first saw the movie, but I’ve come to appreciate how it’s more implicit. Ben doesn’t need to say that part out loud, Han already knows what he is going to say and says his signature response.

• A longshot that’s likely dependent on AI, but possibly the only opportunity to answer “a good question for another time” might be to have Lando talk to Maz during the finale celebrations, perhaps: “You did a great job taking care of that lightsaber I entrusted to you, Maz”.

I’ve provided Nev with a line that will explain this in TFA instead. The deleted footage of Leia handing Maz the lightsaber will be used in Rey’s vision, and she will say “Keep it safe, my old friend”.

• Might there be a way to improve on “I made Snoke”? Perhaps “I trained Snoke. A puppet designed to make you who I needed you to be.”?

As I mentioned in a previous post, a Palpy voice clone is sadly not very likely to be possible.

I see. In that case, here’s something we might be able to squeeze in there as new material:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FL60wHKuihzqzCJ9izyWPUu7WHsvKwCl/view?usp=sharing

I was envisioning having both of them in a similar way to the TFA vision. You can hear old Ben say “Rey?” and another line in that film. I think that it adds to the whole “timeless” nature of the Force. I mean, we already have the youngling that Anakin killed speaking in an older voice.