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You have the perfect name for someone making emotive machines.

Would you do demos for well known speeches/texts? It'd be easier to put this into context that way.

Thank you! We think our name is pretty great too :) Sonantic only creates AI voice models with the consent of the artist/voice owner. We take misuse and copyright infringement very seriously and therefore never train on data (voice recordings) where the original source is unaware of its repurpose. That said, we aim to include more recognisable voices on our platform in the future.

Is there really a copyright issue? Mimicry artists and tribute bands have duplicated original voices without a problem. Technically, you are not reproducing any recording owned by anyone. It's brand new synthesis! It would be interesting to see if any courts rules this is not the case. You can own your spoken speech, but can you really own spectrogram of wave patterns?

I'm sure as a startup, that's not a legal battle that is worth the risk. Judiciary activism is not worth it for them.

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