User blog:Maddox121/Coasters March 2023 Highlight: "Carwardine Parks invests in AI technology to bring back classic voice actors and characters"

On February 25th, Carwardine dropped a bombshell in the amusement technology industry, by officially announcing their investment into artificial intelligence for voice acting. Carwardine has registered the trademark "RobotAPU", which, according to Carwardine, is an acronym for "Robot Artificial Processing Unit", but many people believe it has something to do with The Simpsons character "Apu", who hasn't talked in a queue-tape or any other byproduct since around 2017 due to controversies surrounding him.

This is made even more evident, when in the initial patent, it reads "This computer-generated process, using a modified version of freeware software 15.ai, can digitally recreate the voices of celebrities like Captain Lou Albano, Phil Hartman or Hank Azaria". Note that Hank Azaria, unlike the previous two examples, is not deceased. While other characters will clearly use the synthesizer, Apu is likely to be one of, if not, the first character to use the RobotAPU software.

The other notable point is that it can recreate voices of deceased voice actors, a Carwardine spokesperson has told us here at Coasters Magazine that they will only recreate voices of deceased voice actors with their estates' full blessing. Two notable celebrities have had mention with the software, those two being Phil Hartman (who was murdered in 1998) and Captain Lou Albano (who passed away in 2009).

It's likely their AI would be used for Phil Hartman's wide array of characters on The Simpsons, like Lyle Lanley (who looks a lot like Chris Carwardine in our opinions), Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz, instead of having to use replacement voice actors, as was done for the past two decades and counting. As for Captain Lou Albano, it's likely he'd be used for himself in flashback sequences, and the "Super Show" iteration of the beloved Nintendo character Mario.

In finale, thankfully, Carwardine has confirmed, voice actors who are still alive, like Charles Martinet, Tara Strong, Tress MacNeille, Tom Kenny, and Hank Azaria (for the yellow characters only, of course), would remain, doing lines without any input from this new technology, and will solely be used for characters in which the original voice actor either regrets, aged out of, and/or the original voice actor is dead. All in all, we are optimistic for this new technology.