OpenAI has decided to temporarily stop the use of ChatGPT’s voice known as Sky because it resembles that of actress Scarlett Johansson, and has denied that it is trying to imitate her, while explaining the process they followed to select the five voices of this ‘chatbot’ feature.
With support for voice chat in ChatGPT, OpenAI offered users the possibility to choose between five voices for their interactions with this ‘chatbot’, each with “its own tone and distinctive character”, which are called of Breeze, Cove, Juniper, Sky and Ember.
Now, the company has decided to pause the use of Sky because it is reminiscent of Scarlett Johansson’s voice, while they address this issue, as confirmed on their X profile (former Twitter). She has also taken the opportunity to ensure that Sky’s voice is not an imitation of the interpreter, but rather “belongs to a different professional actress who uses her own natural voice.”
Choosing these people who voice the ‘chatbot’ required five months of work with “professional voice actors, talent agencies, casting directors and industry advisors,” with the aim of finding a group of people who had diverse origins or spoke different languages, had a timeless voice, inspired confidence and was natural and easy to listen to.
Voice chat has been available since September last year for the mobile version (iOS and Android) of ChatGPT with the GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 large language models, waiting for OpenAI to also implement it in GPT-4o in the near future. weeks.
