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I think your confusion may be the difference between the popular demo people are referencing and the Sky voice actress’s actual voice.

Copying a comment from another HN user (not sure if appropriate to name them):

* This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYi3Wr7v_g

* compare it to: https://youtu.be/GV01B5kVsC0?feature=shared&t=158

That seems like quite a strong resemblance to me.

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I think openai looks pretty bad right now, especially with the "her" tweet, but I can't honestly say these voices sound similar. The her clip is so iconically scarjo and I don't think the sky voice is even that close. I'm not a voice expert and I dont know all the technical terms but it isn't very similar in tone, cadence, or what I want to call texture (?)

I wanted to laugh at and belittle openai when I first saw scarjos claim that her friends and family couldn't tell the difference but from the samples you just linked I find that so unlikely that I think she is lying.

they are certainly both the voices of women

These do not sound close at all to me.

Uh, those don't sound like the same person at all. The former uptalks (high rising terminal) a lot. The cadence is different, the pitch is different.

> It looks? like you're part of some recording? or production setup? With those lights? tripod? and possibly a mic? It looks like you might be gearing up to shoot a video? or maybe even a live stream?

They both have a vocal fry, but the former sounds more like valley girl without the slang or vowel lengthening.

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