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Gayanne Potter claimed the publicly-owned rail operator based its AI announcer - known as Iona - on recordings she made in ...
The government-owned train operator recently rolled out “Iona”, an AI voice on some routes, which replaced older messages ...
ScotRail unveiled its new AI announcer - nicknamed "Iona" - on board the railway network in Scotland this month.
ScotRail is working to rectify its AI train announcer, named Iona, following allegations that it uses a woman's voice without ...
Previously announcements were pre-recorded by a Scottish voice artist, but Iona is a synthetic voice which uses an AI model ...
The voice, dubbed Iona, is being used for announcements on ScotRail services across the country. A Scottish voiceover artist ...
Voiceover artist Gayanne said the artificial announcer - which is marketed as an imaginary character called Iona - was ...
But the professional voiceover artist says she had no idea she had been ... ScotRail unveiled its new AI announcer, nicknamed "Iona", on board the railway network in Scotland this month.
Gayanne Potter says she feels ‘violated’ after discovering the announcements that she believes are in her voice ...
It comes less than a week after another artist revealed a synthetic version of her voice had been used on board ScotRail ...
Voiceover artist Gayanne Potter said the artificial announcer - which is marketed as an imaginary character called Iona - was trained by Swedish technology firm ReadSpeaker using her voice.
Next week sees the opening of an exhibition with a difference in Kingussie. “Patina” sees three local artists reunited to ...