Birte Baumgardt

V/O actor, director & game dev
🇩🇪 voice of
Priscilla #TheWitcher3
Raphtalia #ShieldHero
Samantha #Ghosts
Director for #Ahsoka #Edgerunners #Cyberpunk2077

[Birte Baumgardt @bbsynx]

@QuietLittleFeet Congrats! This looks and sounds absolutely incredible, can’t wait to dive in some more 🖤

[Foxglove Games @FOXGLOVEGAMESS]

The Kickstarter and Demo for Burn the Midnight Oil is now live! 🦇❤️‍🔥

Play as the vampire Circe or the hellhound Dante in this supernatural neon-noir romance visual novel.

Solve crimes, steal hearts, and resist (or embrace) the darkness within...

Link below ⤵️

[Anime Updates @animeupdates]

German Voice Actor association 'Verband Deutscher Sprecher' is boycotting NETFLIX

A clause in their new contracts allowed room for Netflix to use their voices for AI training without compensation

[Birte Baumgardt @bbsynx]

Shout it from the fucking rooftops, cause he’s spot on!!

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Astarion actor Neil Newbon says 'fuck AI in performance' and thinks games like ‘Arc Raiders’ that use AI voices should re-record those lines with real actors once the game becomes successful 🎮

"Generative AI ... it sounds [like] crap. No matter how advanced it's getting, it still sounds not right ... anyone who made a shit ton off of a release that uses generative AI for voices ... You've got the money now, spread the wealth ... It would definitely do a lot of good for the actors, and it would definitely do a lot of good will in the community"

(via @PCGamesN)

[Anime Updates @animeupdates]

Amazon Prime has removed the AI Generated English Dubs for 'BANANA FISH' and other Anime seemingly due to the intense backlash

The Latin American AI Generated Dubs have not yet been removed

[NAVA @NAVAVOICES]

Amazon has had many opportunities to create dubbing projects filled with authentic storytelling, emotional connection, and believability. Instead they have chosen to create AI slop dubs of Banana Fish, Vinland Saga, and No Game No life. Many are calling these dubs "insulting" and "disrespectful".

[Reuben Lack @thereubeh]

I can't stress the importance for anime dub fans globally, English or otherwise, to express their distaste for AI dubs now while you still have the chance.

[Nick Huber - Voice Actor, Etc. @NickH_VA]

The Banana Fish AI-generated dub on Amazon is so fucking atrocious; it's almost tragic how lifeless it sounds, the intonations are all wrong, and it's a slap in the face not just to artists, actors, and the media itself, but the fans as well. Absolutely pathetic.

[Daman Mills @DamanMills]

Shame on you @amazon @PrimeVideo.

After years of fans hoping for an English dub of Banana Fish, you give it to us as AI generated garbage?

It’s disrespectful as hell. Was a queer trauma narrative handed to a machine because paying real actors is too hard?

Fix this, or I personally will not work with you as an actor EVER AGAIN on any of your dubs.

This is not ‘the future.’ This is erasure.

[Birte Baumgardt @bbsynx]

Amazon‘s AI dubs, the one for „Banana Fish“ specifically, are a CRIME!! Words can‘t express how appalled I am by this absolute trash, wtf man, ughhh… 🫩

[Birte Baumgardt @bbsynx]

@VivienFaber Alter, was bin ich HÖREND, EWWW?!

[Daman Mills @DamanMills]

I know more people than I can count that can act circles around this robotically shat out garbage. Embarrassing isn’t strong enough of a word.

Banana Fish deserves so much better. 💔

[Aliona Baranova @alionabaranova1]

yup, i think we should have a motion capture category at awards shows

[freya ☽｡⋆ @daothinker]

Honestly seeing a queer woman being so unapologetically queer and happy and in love in such a homophobic and misogynistic sphere like video games is really really beautiful and heartwarming to see

[Abubakar Salim @Abzybabzy]

I’d rather have my voice, my actions, my mark end when I do. My work to be buried or remembered through influence, not replication.

The moment someone else controls how I express myself, it isn’t me anymore. It’s flavour. And that’s a disservice to audiences.

🤷🏿‍♂️

[Marios Gavrilis @Marios_Gavrilis]

Great honor to be nominated for my role as Voss for the @GoldenJoysticks. Link to vote for our game, @TroyBakerVA and me is below. Regardless, thank you all for the love in this last year since the release. Very grateful for you! ❤️
https://t.co/C6JJZ1ZCQP
#indianajonesandthegreatcircle

[C 💒 @churchofysl]

every time someone asks me about my dislike and refusal to use AI, i send them this.

[» 𝓳𝓾𝓵𝓲𝓪 𝓫𝓪𝓾𝓽𝔃 🧡🎙️🦋◓ @JuliaBautzVA]

Hier noch der deutsche Trailer zu "Ein Stern, heller als die Sonne."
Es ist so wahnsinnig therapeutisch an dieser wunderschönen Love Story arbeiten zu dürfen. 💕 🥺 Viel Spaß damit!!!

[Birte Baumgardt @bbsynx]

Alle Kollegen sind wieder mit an Bord, lediglich Arne Stephan als Motoyasu wurde für die erste Episode von Michael Gugel vertreten, aber no worries: Die Takes haben wir bereits neu aufgenommen. Danke an mein tolles Team & die großartigen Leute, mit denen ich arbeiten darf. 🫶🏻

[Birte Baumgardt @bbsynx]

Hi, ich lebe auch noch, ersticke aber gerade in Arbeit! 👋🏻 Ich wollte Euch an dieser Stelle nur wissen lassen, dass aktuell jeden Mittwoch eine neue Folge der 4. Staffel von “The Rising of the Shield Hero” erscheint, seit 2 Wochen auch wieder auf Deutsch.🛡️✨