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'A tech firm stole our voices - then cloned and sold them'

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'A tech firm stole our voices - then cloned and sold them' Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage say their voices were cloned by text-to-speech platform Lovo .

Couple say they were asked to record audio assets on Fiverr , the popular freelance talent website.

They say the files will be used for research purposes only.

Lovo co-founder Tom Lee has previously said its voice-cloning software only needs a user to read about 50 sentences to create a faithful clone.

Lawsuit filed in May alleges Lovo used recordings of their voices to create copies that illegally compete with their real voices.

The couple say the company did so without permission or proper compensation.

Professor Kristelia Garcia , an expert in intellectual property law, says the case is likely to centre on an area of US law called rights of publicity.

VR Score

64

Informative language

56

Neutral language

79

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

39

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

Source diversity

1

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