Comment by vinni2
16 days ago
What about the copyright issue? You can’t mimic the voice of a narrator without their consent. OpenAI landed in trouble after using Scarlett Johansson’s voice in a demo.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161253/scarlett-johanss...
No limitations on this kind of thing if you are in private use.
Forgive me for not knowing it was for personal use.
Indeed I was thinking about private use only.
She only won in that OpenAI decided it wasn’t worth the trouble.
Yeah, by my ear it was pretty clearly not SJ’s voice-likeness, although there were some superficial similarities.
But some people could have mistook it due to some regional accent similarities, though it would be akin to interpretation of any light southern drawl with a similar timbre as being SJ.
They also asked her for permission in advance, which was never going to help their case.
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Kokoro really mentions that they used only permissive licensed voice