David Greene, the longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” has sued Google, alleging the company’s podcasts feature male voices. notebooklm tools based on green, According to The Washington Post.
Green said that when friends, family members and colleagues began emailing him about the similarity, he became convinced that the voice was mimicking his cadence, intonation and use of filler words such as “uh”.
“The most important part of who I am is my voice,” said Green, who currently hosts. KCRW show “Left, Right and Center.”
Among other features, Google’s NotebookLM allows users to Create a Podcast with an AI Host. A spokesperson for the company told the Post that the voice used in this product is not related to Green: “The male voice in the audio overview of NotebookLM is based on a paid professional actor employed by Google.”
This is not the first controversy over AI voices resembling real people. In one notable example, OpenAI removed a ChatGPT voice Actress Scarlett Johansson complained That it was his copy.
