Computer Sciences

How voice assistants follow inaudible commands

An attack against speech recognition systems with manipulated audio files used to work only via a data interface. Now, all it takes is playing the secret messages via loudspeakers.

Computer Sciences

You may well ask. Who, not what, is talking?

(Tech Xplore)—This is for real. Human speech synthesis has reached a new high. Thanks to DeepMind, there is every indication that machines are getting quite good at sounding like humans.

Machine learning & AI

Can you trust your ears? AI voice scams rattle US

The voice on the phone seemed frighteningly real—an American mother heard her daughter sobbing before a man took over and demanded a ransom. But the girl was an AI clone and the abduction was fake.

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