FRACTAL Inc. (Read: Fractal, Location: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, hereinafter "our company"), which is headed by voice actor Yuki Kaji as its representative director and operates an audio AI business centered on the audio AI project [Soyogi Fractal], as well as a voice actor management business, has entered into a business partnership with Yoyogi Animation Academy Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director and President: Taro Ito, hereinafter "Yoyogi Animation Academy"), which operates specialized schools focused on the anime and entertainment fields. This partnership aims to build an educational program for learning about voice actor expression and rights in the AI era. This partnership was initiated by Yoyogi Animation Academy's deep resonance with our company's stance and philosophy of directly confronting the AI era as an expressive artist and business leader, pursuing new forms of creativity beyond just voice acting, through the launch of the audio AI project [Soyogi Fractal] produced by Representative Director and President CEO Yuki Kaji. They also highly evaluated our company's advanced initiatives. We intend for the academy to utilize this initiative as the best teaching material for students aspiring to work in voice acting, enabling them to learn about the role of voice actors and expressive artists in the AI era. Through this partnership, we aim to foster talent capable of thriving in the AI era by merging the long-standing voice actor education cultivated by the academy with our new learning methods utilizing audio AI. [Key Points of This Release] * An educational program will be constructed to learn about the expression and rights of voice actors in the AI era, using the audio AI project [Soyogi Fractal], personally handled by Yuki Kaji, and the audio AI character "Soyogi" based on Kaji's voice, as teaching materials. * Yoyogi Animation Academy resonated with our company's philosophy of voice actors proactively engaging with AI and pro