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> "British Cockney spoken by an 8 year old female with a slight Chinese accent"

This is already the case. The voice acting industry has inertia, and many union contracts have minimum hiring quotas.

In practice, if you consider the output good enough, existing models can generate arbitrary voices that don't correspond to any person. No one has to sign or license anything.

I'm a knowledge worker who, like many, have had a stressful time with the rise of LLMs. The other day I realized that we've had drum machines since the late 70s but we still have drummers. I'm sure there are flaws in this analogy but it helped me to calm down.

What's the future of any profession that can now be sloppily automated? Not great.

what is the future of having your own voice inaccessable as a chattel of labour due to contract law?