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Voice Actor Alleges Unconsented Use of AI-Generated Voice on ScotRail Trains
- Occurred
- May 27, 2025
- Published
- Dec 12, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Scottish voice actor Gayanne Potter alleges her voice was used without proper consent in ScotRail's AI train announcements. She claims she had agreed to limited use of her voice data by ReadSpeaker but was not informed it would be used in a synthetic voice system called "Iona." ScotRail continues to use the voice, stating the dispute is between Potter and ReadSpeaker.
Developers
- ReadSpeaker
Deployers
- ScotRail
Harmed parties
- Gayanne Potter
- Voiceover artists
- Individuals affected by unauthorized biometric data use
Tags
- Voice cloning
- Synthetic media
- AI-generated voice
- Biometric data
- Consent dispute
- ReadSpeaker
- ScotRail
- AI system deployment
- Public transportation
- AI and labor
- Digital identity
- Scotland
- United Kingdom
- Human-AI substitution
- Contractual ambiguity
- Text-to-speech (TTS)
- Accessibility technology
- AI in public services
- Voice actor rights
- reputational harm
- Third-party vendor liability
- Synthetic voice branding
- syndicated
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Unauthorized use of voice data without consent constitutes a privacy violation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8