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from Vanity Fair<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt Was Astonishing\u201d: How NBC Convinced Al Michaels to Embrace His AI Voice for Olympics Coverage<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The network will use an artificial clone of the legendary broadcaster\u2019s voice to narrate its daily recaps of the summer event. \u201cIt was not only close,\u201d he says of the technology, \u201cit was almost 2% off perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0TOM KLUDT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GEORGE GOJKOVICH \/ GETTY IMAGES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

ew voices in American life are more recognizable than the one belonging to\u00a0Al Michaels<\/strong>\u2014play-by-play announcer for nearly a dozen Super Bowls and the source of perhaps the most\u00a0famous line<\/a>\u00a0in sports history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For generations of sports fans, Michaels has been a near-constant presence, providing the soundtrack of last-second field goals, ninth-inning walk-offs, and fourth-quarter buzzer-beaters. He was the voice of\u00a0Monday Night Football<\/em>\u00a0for 20 years, then\u00a0Sunday Night Football<\/em>\u00a0for 16. When the 1989 World Series was disrupted by an earthquake, Michaels\u2019s voice was the one viewers heard just as the broadcast went static. And when a plucky United States hockey team pulled off an upset for the ages against the Soviet Union at the 1980 Olympics, Michaels channeled the prevailing sense of disbelief with a call as iconic as the game itself. (\u201cDo you believe in miracles? Yes!\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Vanity Fair \u201cIt Was Astonishing\u201d: How NBC Convinced Al Michaels to Embrace His AI Voice for Olympics Coverage The network will use an artificial clone of the legendary broadcaster\u2019s voice to narrate its daily recaps of the summer event. \u201cIt was not only close,\u201d he says of the technology, \u201cit was almost 2% off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}