YOU’VE heard him on the radio, in commercials, and across screens. Veteran media personality and internationally acclaimed voice-over artiste Chilu Lemba is celebrating 30 years in broadcasting and voice-over. Reflecting on his career, he noted that although AI can replicate voices, ‘at the moment it hasn’t got the soul of a human being,’ adding that communication is ultimately about human-to-human connections. The award-winning voice-over artiste says that while voices can be cloned, AI presents both challenges in protecting artistes’ rights and opportunities to work more flexibly, even when they are unavailable. In an exclusive interview with Diggers Life, Chilu took a stroll down memory lane, recalling how he entered the media as a teenage presenter at Radio Phoenix in 1996...