<p id="speakable-summary" class="wp-block-paragraph">David Greene, the longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” is suing Google, alleging that the male podcast voice in the company’s <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/googles-notebooklm-expands-its-ai-podcast-feature-to-more-languages/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NotebookLM tool</a> is based on Greene, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/15/david-greene-google-ai-podcast/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzcxMTMxNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcyNTEzOTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzExMzE2MDAsImp0aSI6ImJmOTczZThmLTk3ZWMtNDEyOS04NzA2LTRkNTE4ZjY1N2EwMyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjYvMDIvMTUvZGF2aWQtZ3JlZW5lLWdvb2dsZS1haS1wb2RjYXN0LyJ9._F1_6_Zr4YNbR60dRR6Yvqaz1cgpZ_fXcOfhVq6JjjY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">according to The Washington Post</a>.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Greene said that after friends, family members, and co-workers began emailing him about the resemblance, he became convinced that the voice was replicating his cadence, intonation, and use of filler words like “uh.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“My voice is, like, the most important part of who I am,” said Greene, who currently hosts <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444881/k-c-r-w-s-left-right-center">the KCRW show “</a><a href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444881/k-c-r-w-s-left-right-center" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">Left, Right & Center</a><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444881/k-c-r-w-s-left-right-center">.”</a></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Among other features, Google’s NotebookLM allows users to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/googles-notebooklm-expands-its-ai-podcast-feature-to-more-languages/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">generate a podcast with AI hosts</a>. A company spokesperson told the Post that the voice used in this product is unrelated to Greene’s: “The sound of the male voice in NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews is based on a paid professional actor Google hired.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This isn’t the first dispute over AI voices resembling real people. In one notable example, OpenAI removed a ChatGPT voice after <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/20/scarlett-johansson-says-that-openai-approached-her-to-use-her-voice/">actress Scarlett Johansson complained</a> that it was an imitation of her own.</p>
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