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Kash's avatar

I agree that Altman didn't handle it well, but I'll take the minority position -- if you can find a legit voice actor that sounds like Scarlett Johansson, and you didn't train on her voice, you should be able to use it. Many people will sound similar to her, and yes, you're able to take advantage of the association with the movie -- oh well, you can't own any resemblance to what you put out if it's not an actual copyright violation.

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MichaeL Roe's avatar

This has a strong energy of "At last we have created the AI Samantha from the classic SciFi 'Don't create the AI Samantha'". I mean, Her was kind of dystopian.

In any case, imitating Scarlet Johansson's voice from Her seems way too on the nose.

Makes you wonder if one of the other voice packs will be HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Or Rachel from Blade Runner.

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