Digital sound-alikes: Difference between revisions

+== Examples of speech synthesis software not quite able to fool a human yet == + Lyrebird.ai + CandyVoice.com
(+ == See also in Wikipedia == + w:Speech synthesis)
(+== Examples of speech synthesis software not quite able to fool a human yet == + Lyrebird.ai + CandyVoice.com)
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Living people can defend¹ themselves against digital sound-alike by denying the things the digital sound-alike says if they are presented to the target, but dead people cannot. Digital sound-alikes offer criminals new disinformation attack vectors and wreak havoc on provability.  
Living people can defend¹ themselves against digital sound-alike by denying the things the digital sound-alike says if they are presented to the target, but dead people cannot. Digital sound-alikes offer criminals new disinformation attack vectors and wreak havoc on provability.  
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== Examples of speech synthesis software capable to make a digital sound-alikes ==
* [[w:Adobe Inc.]]'s [[w:Adobe Voco|Voco]] unreleased prototype publicly demonstrated in 2016. ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3l4XLZ59iw&t=5s View and listen to Adobe MAX 2016 presentation of Voco)]
* [[w:DeepMind]]'s [[w:WaveNet]] that was acquired by [[w:Google]] in 2014
Neither of these software are available to the masses at large according to the "official truth", but as is known software has a high tendency to get pirated very quickly.
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== Examples of speech synthesis software not quite able to fool a human yet ==
Some other contenders to create digital sound-alikes are though, as of 2019, their speech synthesis in most use scenarios does not yet fool a human because the results contain tell tale signs that give it away as a speech synthesizer. 
* [https://lyrebird.ai/ Lyrebird.ai] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxDBlZu__Xk (listen)]
* [https://candyvoice.com/ CandyVoice.com] [https://candyvoice.com/demos/voice-conversion (test with your choice of text)]


== Example of a digital sound-alike attack ==
== Example of a digital sound-alike attack ==
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Thus it is high time to act and to '''[[Law proposals to ban covert modeling|criminalize the covert modeling of human appearance and voice]]!'''
Thus it is high time to act and to '''[[Law proposals to ban covert modeling|criminalize the covert modeling of human appearance and voice]]!'''
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== Examples of software capable to make a digital sound-alikes ==
* [[w:Adobe Inc.]]'s [[w:Adobe Voco|Voco]] unreleased prototype publicly demonstrated in 2016. ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3l4XLZ59iw&t=5s View and listen to Adobe MAX 2016 presentation of Voco)]
* [[w:DeepMind]]'s [[w:WaveNet]] that was acquired by [[w:Google]] in 2014


Neither of these software are available to the masses at large according to the "official truth", but as is known software has a high tendency to get pirated very quickly.


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