VOICE CLONING TECHNOLOGY

VOICE CLONING TECHNOLOGY

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AUTHOR claims to have reported about Adobe's new software VoCo that allows you to take audio recordings of someone's voice then doctor them, making the speaker say words or phrases that they never actually said. VoCo was nicknamed "Photoshop of Speech," for that is basically what it is, a software editing tool that can manipulate digital files for both legitimate creative ends and willful deception.

In fact, VoCo is being labeled as a security threat by some media and cybersecurity experts due to the various ways it can be used to "put words in someone else's mouth" - an obvious nightmare for politicians, celebrities, lawyers and journalists.

VoCo's caveat is that it requires at least 20 minutes of audio samples before its algorithm can successfully mimic someone's voice.

Now, a new start-up wants to one-up that and claims its software can copy and synthesize anyone's voice with just a minute long recording.

Lyrebird - Copy the voice of anyone

Montreal-based start-up company Lyrebird is set to launch its new service that uses deep learning artificial intelligence and algorithms to mimic anyone's voice from even a minute worth of audio samples.

The company claims that its software can compress anyone's voice "DNA" to generate a unique key. This key can then be used to generate and synthesize speech with the corresponding voice "DNA."

Aside from creating artificial speech, users can even control the emotion of the computer-generated voice to express human subtleties like anger, stress or sympathy.

The developers said that their processing clusters are powerful enough to generate 1,000 real-time sentences in less than a half a second.

To showcase how accurate their voice-mimicking technology is, Lyrebird's website has a number of audio demos with artificial talk from the likes of Donald Trump, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

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Voice hackers can record your voice then use morpher to trick authentication systems

Researchers are warning that with a few minutes of your recorded voice, attackers can use voice morphing for imitation attacks that can trick machine and human authentication systems.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2988133/security/voice-hackers-can-record-your-voice-then-use-morpher-to-trick-authentication-systems.html

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Software Is Called Capable of Copying Any Human Voice, AS OF 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/31/business/software-is-called-capable-of-copying-any-human-voice.html

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/lyrebird-ai-algorithm-human-voices/
New voice-cloning AI is more dangerous than you could imagine
The company recognizes the “dangerous consequence” of its technology.

http://www.rense.com/general12/ld.htm
Voice Cloning - Software, Recreates Voices Of Living & Dead
New York Times, 8-1-1

https://www.geek.com/news/voice-cloning-543738/
VOICE CLONING

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170425/07092537229/new-tools-allow-voice-patterns-to-be-cloned-to-produce-realistic-fake-sounds-anyone-saying-anything.shtml

https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/24/15406882/ai-voice-synthesis-copy-human-speech-lyrebird
Lyrebird claims it can recreate any voice using just one minute of sample audio

https://airgapanonymitycollective.com/2017/05/25/ai-voice-cloning-perceived-reality-fake-news-has-a-new-friend/



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