They stole my voice with AI
Elecrow—an electronics company that makes Pi and ESP accessories—used an AI voice for multiple tutorial series which sounds _almost exactly_ like me.
I never consented to have my voice used to promote Elecrow's products.
Update: The CEO of Elecrow responded to my email about the unauthorized voice cloning early this morning.
I will be posting a video with more details and my reaction either tomorrow or Wednesday, but here's a snippet of the email.
@geerlingguy This is a solid response. The fact that they offered compensation tells me they are a decent org and likely the scenario described is the truth.
I can totally see it - in tech the marketing peeps need to be kept on a short leash in order to keep them from over promising and doing stupid sh!t to get visibility.
Richard@elecrow - guessing you thought this was sorted in the past - you and your tech managers can't take your eyes off them! o7 Bt/dt
Jeff Geerling
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