Cissy Jones

Cissy Jones is one of video gaming’s most recognizable voices — Delilah in “Firewatch,” a performance that won the 2017 BAFTA Games Award for Performer, plus roles in “Life is Strange,” “Baldur’s Gate 3” and Disney’s “The Owl House,” where she voiced Lilith Clawthorne. Then fans started sending her clips of her voice saying things she had never recorded.

From cloning victim to AI company CEO

Discovering her voice had been cloned and used without consent pushed Jones into advocacy with the National Association of Voice Actors, where she helped articulate the movement’s three-word framework: consent, control, compensation. “They need to get active consent,” she told Screen Rant — and “anytime somebody uses that voice, I need to know I need to get paid.”

Rather than stop at protest, Jones co-founded Ethovox in 2024 and became its CEO — the only voice AI company owned and managed by voice actors. In October 2024, SAG-AFTRA signed a landmark agreement with Ethovox to build a foundational voice model for digital replicas with union-approved guardrails: actors are paid session fees plus ongoing revenue shares, and keep control over how their voice data is used.

Jones is explicit that her fight is against exploitation, not the technology: she argues investors can earn strong returns “alongside an entire community” rather than at its expense, and that if ethical actors don’t build the voice AI future, unethical ones will.