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When it cannot be determined by human testing, is some synthesized recording a simulation of some person's speech, or is it a recording made of that person's actual real voice, it is a '''digital sound-alike'''. | When it cannot be determined by human testing, is some synthesized recording a simulation of some person's speech, or is it a recording made of that person's actual real voice, it is a '''digital sound-alike'''. | ||
As of '''2019''' Symantec research knows of 3 cases where digital sound-alike technology '''has been used for crimes'''.<ref name="WaPo2019"> | |||
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/04/an-artificial-intelligence-first-voice-mimicking-software-reportedly-used-major-theft/</ref> | |||
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)] | |||
* '''[https://cstr-edinburgh.github.io/merlin/ Merlin]''', a [[w:neural network]] based speech synthesis system by the Centre for Speech Technology Research at the [[w:University of Edinburgh]] | |||
== Example of a digital sound-alike attack == | == Example of a digital sound-alike attack == | ||
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# Victim #4 - Our judiciary which prosecutes and possibly convicts the innocent victim #1. | # Victim #4 - Our judiciary which prosecutes and possibly convicts the innocent victim #1. | ||
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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== Documented digital sound-alike attacks == | |||
* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/04/an-artificial-intelligence-first-voice-mimicking-software-reportedly-used-major-theft/?noredirect=on 'An artificial-intelligence first: Voice-mimicking software reportedly used in a major theft'], a 2019 Washington Post article | |||
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== See also in Ban Covert Modeling! wiki == | |||
* [[How to protect yourself from covert modeling]] | |||
* [[Digital look-alikes]] | |||
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Footnote 1. Whether a suspect can defend against faked synthetic speech that sounds like him/her depends on how up-to-date the judiciary is. If no information and instructions about digital sound-alikes have been given to the judiciary, they likely will not believe the defense of denying that the recording is of the suspect's voice. | Footnote 1. Whether a suspect can defend against faked synthetic speech that sounds like him/her depends on how up-to-date the judiciary is. If no information and instructions about digital sound-alikes have been given to the judiciary, they likely will not believe the defense of denying that the recording is of the suspect's voice. | ||
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= Transcluded Wikipedia articles = | |||
== Speech synthesis article transcluded from Wikipedia == | |||
{{wikipedia::speech synthesis}} | |||