The future producer of “Himbo Heist”: In voiceover work there’s a concept called a “soundalike” which is an actor chosen to impersonate someone more famous. My guess was always that this was what they did.

In voiceover work there’s a concept called a “soundalike” which is an actor chosen to impersonate someone more famous. My guess was always that this was what they did.

I believe that the reporting here is accurate, and what I take away from it is that Sam Altman is a sweaty weirdo who’s embarrassing his coworkers. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records showwww.washingtonpost.com A different actress was hired to voice OpenAI’s “Sky” months before CEO Sam Altman contacted Scarlett Johansson, according to documents and the actress’s agent.

And thanks to our mother, that’s not allowed here. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_....

Midler v. Ford Motor Co. - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

Bette Midler to the rescue.

Jim Cummings did this quite a bit for animated movies and shows, most famously in Lion King's "Be Prepared" after Irons lost his voice for a bit.

You can't blackbox a copy. "We hired someone to make a copy, and encoded that" isn't a reimplementation

The only thing that would shock me more than there *not* being some legal way to get a voice that sounder very much like "Samantha" would be if openAI took the legal route.

I wasn't aware that people thought OpenAI used ScarJo's voice until this reporting explaining that they didn't. Soundalikes!

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