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Scarlett Johansson Says ChatGPT Voice ‘Similar’ to Hers

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Part I. QUESTIONS

Listen to the news and choose the best answer to each question you hear.

Q1. How did Scarlett Johansson respond to the similarity between her voice and the Sky voice?

A. She was pleased to lend her voice to the system.

B. She was shocked and angered by the similarity.

C. She asked OpenAI to modify the voice to be less similar.

D. She declined the offer to lend her voice to the system.

Q2. What did OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman claim about the selection of the voice actor for Sky before contacting Scarlett Johansson?

A. The voice was chosen to sound like Johansson.

B. The voice was selected after Johansson declined to lend her voice.

C. The voice was selected before any outreach to Johansson.

D. The voice was selected because it was similar to Johansson’s.

Q3. What is a significant new feature of the latest AI model, ChatGPT-4o, showcased by OpenAI?

A. The ability to have conversations without using the internet.

B. The integration of voice mode with emotional understanding capabilities.

C. The ability to generate high-resolution images from text descriptions.

D. The inclusion of advanced game-playing capabilities.

Q4. What causes people to draw comparisons between ChatGPT-4o with the movie Her?

A. Both involve an AI assistant that could speak with emotion.

B. Both have an AI assistant with a similar voice to Scarlett Johansson.

C. Both allow users to converse with an AI in real time.

D. Both are focused on the emotional intelligence of AI.

Q5. What can be inferred about the situation from the fact that Altman wrote “her” on social media on the day of GPT-4o’s release?

A. He was acknowledging the controversy surrounding the voice.

B. He was referencing the movie Her in relation to the new AI model.

C. He was expressing his support for Scarlett Johansson.

D. He was announcing a new feature inspired by the movie Her.

Part II. TRANSCRIPT

Scarlett Johansson Says ChatGPT Voice ‘Similar’ to Hers

The American artificial intelligence company OpenAI has removed one of its ChatGPT voices. The move came after actor Scarlett Johansson said the voice sounded “eerily similar” to her voice in the movie Her.

eerily adv. 怪异可怕地

In a post Monday on the social media service X, OpenAI said it is “working to pause” Sky. That is the name of one of five voices that ChatGPT users can choose to speak with in its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.

In a statement, Johansson said that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had asked her last September if she would lend her voice to the ChatGPT system. Johansson said she declined the offer.

(Q1) Johansson said, “When I heard the released demo, I was shocked, angered and in disbelief that Mr. Altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine.” She added that her close friends and even the news media “could not tell the difference” between her voice and the voice of Sky.

Johansson said OpenAI agreed to take down the Sky voice after her lawyers asked about the process by which the company came up with the voice.

OpenAI said in an online post that the voice of Sky belongs to a “different professional actress.” But it added that it could not share the name of that actress for privacy reasons.

(Q2) In an email sent to The Associated Press following Johansson’s statement Monday, Altman said that OpenAI selected the voice actor behind Sky “before any outreach” to Johansson. “The voice of Sky is not Scarlett Johansson’s, and it was never intended to resemble hers,” Altman added.

outreach n. 外展服务，扩大服务

Voice Mode

OpenAI added voice capabilities to ChatGPT last September. The feature is called “Voice Mode.” It permits users to have a conversation with the AI assistant. In November, OpenAI announced that the feature would become free for all users with the mobile app.

Last week, OpenAI showed off its latest AI model, called ChatGPT-4o. (Q3) The program lets users speak to the chatbot and get real-time answers. The chatbot now has emotion in its voice and even tries to understand a person’s emotional state by looking at a selfie video of their face.

(Q4) The capabilities have brought comparisons to the 2013 movie Her. The film follows a man who falls in love with an AI assistant, which is voiced by Johansson.

voice v. 发声，表达

(Q5) Altman appeared to make the same comparison. He wrote the word “her” on the social media service X on the day of GPT-4o’s release.

Part III. KEY

Q1. B. 细节题。命题出处：“Johansson said, ‘...I was shocked, angered and in disbelief...’”意为：“Johansson说，‘...我感到震惊、愤怒和难以置信...’”根据Johansson的声明，她对自己声音与Sky的声音相似而感到震惊、愤怒且难以置信，因此答案为B。

Q2. C. 细节题。命题出处：“Altman said that OpenAI selected the voice actor behind Sky ‘before any outreach’ to Johansson.”意为：“Altman表示，在对外寻求与Johansson合作之前，OpenAI就已经选定了Sky背后的配音演员。”根据Altman的陈述，Sky的配音演员是在Johansson之前选定的，因此答案为C。

Q3. .B. 细节题。命题出处：“The program lets users speak to the chatbot and get real-time answers. The chatbot now has emotion in its voice and even tries to understand a person’s emotional state by looking at a selfie video of their face.”意为：“该程序允许用户与聊天机器人对话并获得实时回答。如今，这个聊天机器人在其语音中融入了情感，甚至试图通过分析用户的自拍视频来理解他们的情绪状态。”因此答案为B。

Q4. A. 主旨题。命题出处：“The capabilities have brought comparisons to the 2013 movie Her.” 意为：“这些能力让人联想到2013年的电影《她》。”而这些能力指的是AI能用带有感情的语音与人实时交流，这与ChatGPT-4o的新功能有相似之处，因此答案为A。

Q5. B. 推理题。命题出处：“Altman appeared to make the same comparison. He wrote the word ‘her’ on the social media service X on the day of GPT-4o’s release.”意为：“Altman似乎在进行同样的比较。他在GPT-4o发布的那天在社交媒体服务X上写了‘her’这个词。”Altman在社交媒体上写“her”可能是在暗指新AI模型与电影《她》的相似之处，因此答案为B。

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