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Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway. (boingboing.net)
submitted 6 months ago by Wilshire to c/technology
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[–] cbarrick 23 points 6 months ago

Fine tuning a general TTS model on a specific custom voice doesn't require as much data as you think it does.

The hard part is building the foundational model that can be easily fine tuned. And OpenAI has already done that.