I think openai looks pretty bad right now, especially with the "her" tweet, but I can't honestly say these voices sound similar. The her clip is so iconically scarjo and I don't think the sky voice is even that close. I'm not a voice expert and I dont know all the technical terms but it isn't very similar in tone, cadence, or what I want to call texture (?)
I wanted to laugh at and belittle openai when I first saw scarjos claim that her friends and family couldn't tell the difference but from the samples you just linked I find that so unlikely that I think she is lying.
Uh, those don't sound like the same person at all. The former uptalks (high rising terminal) a lot. The cadence is different, the pitch is different.
> It looks? like you're part of some recording? or production setup? With those lights? tripod? and possibly a mic? It looks like you might be gearing up to shoot a video? or maybe even a live stream?
They both have a vocal fry, but the former sounds more like valley girl without the slang or vowel lengthening.
Please don't post like this, for a couple reasons: one is that it "never does any good and makes boring reading", as the site guidelines have said for many years: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The other reason is that in cases where a comment didn't deserve to be downvoted (which you're right, was the case here), fair-minded users will usually come along and give the post a corrective upvote (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). Which fixes the problem except then comments like your reply here linger on as inaccurate—there's no garbage collector to take care of them.
Copying a comment from another HN user (not sure if appropriate to name them):
* This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYi3Wr7v_g
* compare it to: https://youtu.be/GV01B5kVsC0?feature=shared&t=158
That seems like quite a strong resemblance to me.