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Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

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Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

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Post by allenu »

teekert wrote: post #7

I listen to some Jupiter Broadcasting podcasts. The main host (Chris Fisher) regularly pops up in NotebookLLM content, with his voice. Sometimes it just jumps in, and then after some time out again. It’s usually a pretty perfect imitation, I can’t hear the difference . Edit, here an older piece, there have been many since: [0], it’s the 3rd voice that enters the NotebookLLM clip so it takes a minute before it comes i…

In the clip, I thought he was playing a prank by reading the script of NotebookLM as the third voice (after the woman). Was that really NotebookLM? I've only heard the first two voices and the first voice didn't sound like him to me, but the last one definitely sounded like him.

Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

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Post by teekert »

allenu wrote: post #21
teekert wrote: post #7

I listen to some Jupiter Broadcasting podcasts. The main host (Chris Fisher) regularly pops up in NotebookLLM content, with his voice. Sometimes it just jumps in, and then after some time out again. It’s usually a pretty perfect imitation, I can’t hear the difference . Edit, here an older piece, there have been many since: [0], it’s the 3rd voice that enters the NotebookLLM clip so it takes a minute before it comes i…

In the clip, I thought he was playing a prank by reading the script of NotebookLM as the third voice (after the woman). Was that really NotebookLM? I've only heard the first two voices and the first voice didn't sound like him to me, but the last one definitely sounded like him.

Yeah it’s after the woman enters. That is usually how it happens, suddenly his voice comes in, even though it’s a duo suddenly it’s his voice for some time. And really with all his mannerisms. I guess there is just a lot of his material out there.

Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

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Post by teekert »

jader201 wrote: post #17
teekert wrote: post #7

I listen to some Jupiter Broadcasting podcasts. The main host (Chris Fisher) regularly pops up in NotebookLLM content, with his voice. Sometimes it just jumps in, and then after some time out again. It’s usually a pretty perfect imitation, I can’t hear the difference . Edit, here an older piece, there have been many since: [0], it’s the 3rd voice that enters the NotebookLLM clip so it takes a minute before it comes i…

Yeah, I don't hear it. I kept listening waiting to hear the voice that was supposed to sound like him, and never did. Was it the first one (I heard three different voices during the clip)? That one is considerably deeper than the podcaster's voice, and has different tones, too. It definitely wasn't the last one, that one was much higher pitched (and then a female voice in the middle). Feels like a big stretch, to say…

It’s the voice after the woman indeed. I think it’s very close, didn’t understand what happened the first time I heard it. And this was 2024, they found many funny examples and they get better and are even better copies.

Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

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Post by teekert »

walthamstow wrote: post #15
teekert wrote: post #7

I listen to some Jupiter Broadcasting podcasts. The main host (Chris Fisher) regularly pops up in NotebookLLM content, with his voice. Sometimes it just jumps in, and then after some time out again. It’s usually a pretty perfect imitation, I can’t hear the difference . Edit, here an older piece, there have been many since: [0], it’s the 3rd voice that enters the NotebookLLM clip so it takes a minute before it comes i…

I think I rememeber an episode where he played a clip of AI Chris talking about Linux at the start of an episode and I genuinely couldn't tell the difference

Yeah for sure it has copied his voice and mannerisms nearly perfectly.

Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

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Post by lysace »

ghostly_s wrote: post #20
lysace wrote: post #2

Echoes of when Scarlett Johansson accused OpenAI of stealing her voice. That time it was impossible to tell who was in the right - there was no available recording of OpenAI's supposed Scarlett clone - they had pulled it immediately for fear of bad PR. Then came the completely nonsensical HN threads with people arguing about something they hadn't heard. Maybe don't redo that whole thing? Could we at least make sure t…

Don't know what you're talking about, clips of the AI voice were publicly available at the time.

They were definitely not. Here is someone in that first thread trying to figure out what is actually going on, and failing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421757

I had to wade through 12 gigantic generic political subthreads to find this.

"Do you have an example of the changed voice anywhere?" (No replies.)

"Yes, I feel gaslit by the whole situation" is a great summary.

Please post a clip from the time. I'm still curious to hear how similar or not they acually were.

Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

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Post by koolba »

tantalor wrote: post #25

Compare for yourself. David Greene: https://youtu.be/xYxQrLp4MQk NotebookLM: https://youtu.be/AR4dRtzFvxM I think he just has "podcast guy" voice. It's pretty generic.

The more familiar you are with his voice the less similar it would sound. It’s like how siblings look more similar to strangers.

Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

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Post by Zigurd »

tantalor wrote: post #25

Compare for yourself. David Greene: https://youtu.be/xYxQrLp4MQk NotebookLM: https://youtu.be/AR4dRtzFvxM I think he just has "podcast guy" voice. It's pretty generic.

When I tried NotebookLM on a long project management training deck, I thought the male voice sounded quite a bit like Leo Laporte. The format and banter seemed similar, too.

Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

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Post by hinkley »

koolba wrote: post #27
tantalor wrote: post #25

Compare for yourself. David Greene: https://youtu.be/xYxQrLp4MQk NotebookLM: https://youtu.be/AR4dRtzFvxM I think he just has "podcast guy" voice. It's pretty generic.

The more familiar you are with his voice the less similar it would sound. It’s like how siblings look more similar to strangers.

Well remember that how your voice sounds to you isn’t what other people hear.

But I’m the guy who blurts out how the voice actor for the gate guard played the brother in that movie with that guy. And I can hear what he’s complaining about. There’s a lot of elements of his voice and the tempo is pretty close.

)usually it’s the tempo and certain phonemes that give people away to me when they are doing a different accent)

Re: Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

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Post by kylecazar »

Zigurd wrote: post #28
tantalor wrote: post #25

Compare for yourself. David Greene: https://youtu.be/xYxQrLp4MQk NotebookLM: https://youtu.be/AR4dRtzFvxM I think he just has "podcast guy" voice. It's pretty generic.

When I tried NotebookLM on a long project management training deck, I thought the male voice sounded quite a bit like Leo Laporte. The format and banter seemed similar, too.

Wow, I haven't heard that name in a long while. Brought me back to watching he and Kevin Rose on TV after school.
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