For almost 50 years, James Earl Jones has voiced one of the greatest cinematic villains of our time.

Although the time for the 91-year-old to step away from the role of Darth Vader, the central antagonist in the "Star Wars" franchise, has come, his iconic voice will still live on thanks to artificial intelligence.

In an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair, Star Wars sound supervising editor Matthew Wood said Jones signed off on using his archival voice recordings for many years to come for future Lucasfilm projects.

Vanity Fair reported that the Ukrainian start-up at Respeecher was tasked to make the character sound like Jones did 45 years ago in the recent Disney+ miniseries “Obi-Wan Kenobi."

Using artificial intelligence synthetic speech technology, and with the help of Jones, they were able to accomplish just that, the media outlet reported.

CNN reported that Jones' voice was first heard in "A New Hope," although he wasn't credited for the role.

Wood said Jones' family was pleased with the work result, the media outlet reported.

Researchers in Hungary say they've found that dogs can recognize their owners by their voice alone.

The dogs' owners were invited in on the study and were able to record their voices and use their voices in various parts of the study. The dogs had to choose from a distance and had to look for their owner who was hiding. The game lasted multiple rounds and the owner's voice was mixed in with the voices of 14 different strangers.

The study, done at Budapest's Eötvös Loránd University, found that after looking at 28 dogs, they determined that the animals were able to find their owner in 82% of cases.

A senior researcher at the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University told CNN, "Probably in a lot of cases dogs have to switch on their nose to find things and they don't just use it routinely all the time."

In the study it said, "Humans are highly skilled in extracting identity information from speech from an early age."

The study found that dogs have a high ability to recognize aspects of voice in humans, like pitch.

Tamás Faragó, a senior researcher at the Department of Ethology for the university said, "Of course, usually, the dogs meet in person with humans so that they can differentiate us by our looks, and also the smell, and they use all these things, but there are more and more research and technology going into this direction."