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I didn't think it sounded like her either. This is one of those things you can make it sound like her with a little marketing and branding but I didn't think it sounded like her on a blind listen.

When I heard the demo, I assumed they licensed her voice until I read the press release.

If you listen to her voice in Her and listen to Sky back to back, they are clearly very different. Scarlett has some raspy tones to her voice that are very distinctive and come through even when she is talking like an AI.

I wonder if people just associate the "talking like an AI" thing to Scarlett and it's not actually her voice that seems familiar.

Something very specific like Sam Altman asking to use her voice nine months ago and her saying no, and then him asking again *two days* before the 4o demo, and then on the day of the demo him tweeting the single word "her", the name of the movie where she plays an AI voice?

It sounds like Rashida Jones.