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by danShumway 1995 days ago
I don't think a voice can be copyrighted, but IANAL so you shouldn't bank on that.

If a voice could be copyrighted, or if this was a trademark issue or something, I strongly suspect that this site would not fall under fair use regardless of whether or not it was commercial. But again, IANAL, so I don't feel confident making any kind of strong claim about that either.
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dragonwriter 1995 days ago
> I don't think a voice can be copyrighted, but IANAL so you shouldn't bank on that.

The audio content (which includes voices) of the source work is copyrighted, and a mechanical transform of that work (which deep learning to mimic the voices clearly is) would seem to be a derivative in at least the literal sense.

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thrill 1995 days ago
IANAL and I would say no. Anyone is free to imitate any else. A machine doesn't make that different. It would be a violation to claim you were someone else while doing the imitation.
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