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>>richar+(OP)
It seems increasingly difficult for common people to protect their voices, especially when even Scarlett Johansson can't manage it. As a part-time voice actor with a unique voice, I'm concerned about what I should do if my voice is used without permission and the company denies it. How can I protect myself in such a situation?

>>Ariel_+4g
What are the unique aspects of a sound? A lot of people look and sound stunningly alike.

As a recent example Baldur’s Gate 3, Andrew Wincott voiced Raphael, an npc-antagonist, who to my untrained ear sounded exactly like Charles Dance, and the character model had more than a passing semblance to Mr. Dance as well.

It was not a Charles Dance carbon copy but all aspects of the character were strongly aligned with him.

I’m wondering where is the line in style and personal aspects of one’s craft drawn.

Some of this is probably part of personal perception.

>>fsloth+jO
Try loading random voice file done by real (voice)actors into Audacity, switch view to spectrogram mode, drag down to expand, and compare it to yours. Professionally done voice should look like neatly arranged salmon slices, yours will look like PCIe eye diagrams.

You can also obviously compare multiple voice files recorded with similar sounding but different individuals, they rarely look similar on spectrograms.

>>numpad+pV
Sure, except literally no one actually does this. You listen to a voice and it sounds similar in your head? That's who you picture when you hear it. Unless you're a robot I guess.

>>gambit+kY
The point is that human voices are technically and verifiably unique, tangential or perhaps antithetical to your/average person's perception.