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Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway. (boingboing.net)
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[–] buddascrayon 14 points 1 month ago

No matter how similar the voice is to Scarlett Johansson's, it would still sound fundamentally different. But there are tricks that you can use to alter the pitch and range of a voice to make it sound more like a specific person and that's probably what they did.