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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Neil Pooran

Actress says ScotRail’s new AI announcer uses her voice data without permission

A voiceover artist says her voice data is being used for ScotRail’s new AI train announcer without her permission, saying she feels “violated” and does not have control.

The government-owned train operator recently rolled out “Iona”, an AI voice on some routes, which replaced older messages recorded by a human.

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