Comment by IncreasePosts
2 years ago
They voice artist put out a statement through her lawyer. She also stated her voice has never been compared to Scarlett in real life by anyone who knows her.
2 years ago
They voice artist put out a statement through her lawyer. She also stated her voice has never been compared to Scarlett in real life by anyone who knows her.
that's because scarlett's voice is pretty generic white upper middle class woman with a hint of vocal fry, and a slight hint of california (pretty typical given pervasiveness of media from california).
She's not exactly gilbert gottfried or morgan freeman.
Now I'm just sad that it doesn't respond in a flirty Gilbert Gottfried style voice.
This is Gilbert Gottfriend reading 50 Shades of Grey.
https://youtu.be/XkLqAlIETkA?si=8nLtWaBwq3Swum1i
I heard this comment in my mind in a flirty Gilbert Gottfried voice.
Thank you for the laughter.
I'd like to hear her raw voice compared to the polished product. Listen to famous singers' acoustic vs. heavily audio-engineered final cuts. Big difference. I think if you played this OpenAI "Sky" voice to a sample population and said it was a famous person's voice, SA would come up frequently.
This is just Scarlett Johansson trying to destroy some small voice actor. I greatly dislike what OpenAI is doing, but this is just ridiculous.
Scarlett Johansson is apparently so devious she managed to get OpenAI to reach out to her to license her voice and likeness.
She even set up the CEO by having him directly negotiate with her, which I’m sure he also did with the alleged small voice actor. Then she perfected her scheme by having that same CEO publicly tweet “her” - timed with the release of the voice product - referencing JS’s movie of the same name where she voiced a computer system with a personality.
She even managed to get OpenAI to take down the voice in OpenAI’s words “out of respect” for SJ while maintaining their legal defense publicly that the voice was not based on hers.
Is it illegal to hire a voice actor that sounds like Darth Vader? No. Is it illegal to hire a voice actor that sounds like Her? No. Would it be appealing to have SJ voice act for them? Sure. Does that mean it's illegal for another voice actor to (according to some) sound similar to a character from a poplar movie? No. All of these things can be true together
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SJ doesn't know who the voice actor is. Her objection is with OpenAI's actions.
Why would she?
I can't read minds unfortunately.