“ChatGPT Can Talk Now, Threatening Alexa and Siri: OpenAI Is Rapidly Pushing out Updates to Its Products to Make Them More Accessible to More People, As Amazon Invests in a Leading Start-Up § Sky Voice”, 2023-09-25 (; backlinks):
OpenAI announced it was giving its ChatGPT chatbot the ability to talk with users using voice and audio, putting the smaller artificial intelligence company on a direct collision course with tech giants Google, Apple and Amazon in the battle to create smarter voice assistants.
…The new personas for ChatGPT are named “Sky”, “Ember”, “Breeze”, “Juniper”, & “Cove”. Each of the personas has a different tone and accent. “Sky” sounds somewhat similar to Scarlett Johansson, the actor who voiced the AI that Joaquin Phoenix’s character falls in love with in the movie Her. Peter Deng, the OpenAI executive, said the voice personas were not meant to sound like any specific person.
…[followup] In a September interview, The Post asked Peter Deng, OpenAI’s vice president of consumer products, whether the voice was meant to resemble the actress’s. “No, we actually have 5 different voices we’ll be launching with. It’s all personal preference”, Deng said.