How is signing away your "voiceprint" to be used for automatic speech generation any different than people recording lines for national transport systems, for e

How is signing away your "voiceprint" to be used for automatic speech generation any different than people recording lines for national transport systems, for example? They spend a couple of weeks in a recording booth, recording every number "one/two/three..." and every placename on the map, as well as dozens of announcements. you may have never heard of Emma Clarke, but if you live in the UK you've heard her voice a thousand times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Clarke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Clarke Imagine if instead of having to record every number, placename, announcement, she could just read a short script, and then every possible message could be autogenerated from that. the end result would be the same for her, but much less work. Now think about models who do photoshoots. They get paid for individual photoshoots, just like Emma got paid for providing her voice for that one particular customer (the TFL). But if you can't afford custom model photos for your website/brochure, you can go to a stock image bank and just find some decent photos. You may not have heard of András István Arató but I'm sure you know his face: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hide_the_Pain_Harold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hide_the_Pain_Harold Extend these two concepts to voiceover, and you arrive at the fact that "voiceprint stock libraries" are a guaranteed eventuality. Emma and Andras were both willing to sell their voice and image to someone. In Andras' case, he doesn't even know who the end-user is. Instead of just choosing from a set of Andras stock photographs, you might also purchase a license to his voice, and use it to overdub your advertisement. - because someone, maybe not you, but someone, will be happy to take a few grand and let people use their voice, just like people sell their photos to stock libraries.