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Chris Williamson says an ElevenLabs voice sounds like his

The Modern Wisdom host can't prove that a voice used in ads he never made came from his own, and nobody referees these cases.

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Chris Williamson, host of the Modern Wisdom podcast, said in a video on 16 October that one of ElevenLabs' most popular British voices, called Archer, sounded so much like him that his friends mistook it for him, and that it had been used in ads he never made.

By his account, ElevenLabs replied that the voice comes from an actor and that its similarity test scored 0.28, below the 0.7 the company treats as a match. The voice is no longer available. A lawyer told him that the US recognises a right of publicity, but no voice-cloning case has gone to trial yet. His conclusion: even with lawyers, he can't prove his voice is his.

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