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crazygringo 5 hours ago

Yup, it's absolutely not his voice. The NotebookLM voice is pitched significantly higher.

Nor does it seem like his voice but changed "just enough" (like in pitch).

I agree, he just has a very generic-sounding "podcast guy" voice. And obviously, NotebookLM trained on tons of podcasts and is generating a highly generic, average-sounding voice. Which is why it's pitched higher, since David Greene has a lower than average pitch.

This lawsuit is either just to generate buzz to build his personal brand, or maybe he's worried about the competitive threat from AI. But there's no way he's going to win this suit. This isn't like the case with Bette Midler, where Ford intentionally hired someone to mimic her voice.

mhuffman an hour ago | parent | next [-]

>Yup, it's absolutely not his voice.

However it does seem to copy the the way he "lisps" his S's. I am not sure that is common 'generic-sounding "podcast guy" voice'.

crazygringo 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

He almost certainly doesn't "lisp" his S's if you heard him in real life, but says them perfectly normally.

What you're hearing is the way microphones deal with the hissing of an "s", same as they struggle with plosives like "p", from the whoosh of air. It's an artifact of microphones close to the mouth, so it makes sense that Google replicates it.

You can use physical pop filters or digital audio filters to reduce the effect, but podcasters don't usually use the physical ones, and the level of audio processing podcasters do really depends on their level of expertise and how much they even care.

hluska an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

When I was university, I got heavy into spoken word poetry and making hip hop. Personal Journals by Sage Francis had become a huge part of my life and rather than focus on school like a mature person I thought I’d make my own album. It turns out I have a profound lack of talent, but I got a lot of experience with a microphone.

To me that ‘s’ sound reminds me of the sibilance a Shure SM58 picks up without a pop filter. I hear a different side of the same idea on ‘p’ and ‘b’ as well.

I had a speech impediment as a youngster and the sound got in my head. Now I hear it on podcasts.

Physkal 5 minutes ago | parent [-]

Drop us some heat

sailfast 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You never know, it might be worth a couple hundred grand in settlement money…