{"id":549,"date":"2019-11-14T04:19:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T04:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/?p=549"},"modified":"2019-11-15T05:03:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T05:03:41","slug":"audio-deepfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/2019\/11\/14\/audio-deepfakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Deepfake audio scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As ai moves forwards, there will be more and more misuse of technology. Recently, an audio Deepfake of a <a href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2019\/09\/05\/scammers-deepfake-ceos-voice-to-talk-underling-into-243000-transfer\/\">CEO&#8217;s voice was used in a $243,000 scam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sample of what audio syncretization can achieve (the example is not related to the scam):<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, The Goolge&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/google.github.io\/tacotron\/index.html\">Tacotron team<\/a> created a text to speech synthesizer that can <a href=\"https:\/\/google.github.io\/tacotron\/publications\/speaker_adaptation\/\">copy your voice after listening just 5 seconds. https:\/\/google.github.io\/tacotron\/publications\/speaker_adaptation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reference:<br \/>\n<audio controls=\"\"><source src=\"https:\/\/google.github.io\/tacotron\/publications\/speaker_adaptation\/demos\/groundtruth\/p240_00000.wav\" type=\"audio\/wav\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Synthesized:<br \/>\n<audio controls=\"\"><source src=\"https:\/\/google.github.io\/tacotron\/publications\/speaker_adaptation\/demos\/synthesized\/p240_00002.wav\" type=\"audio\/wav\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p><audio controls=\"\"><source src=\"https:\/\/google.github.io\/tacotron\/publications\/speaker_adaptation\/demos\/synthesized\/p240_00073.wav\" type=\"audio\/wav\"><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As ai moves forwards, there will be more and more misuse of technology. Recently, an audio Deepfake of a CEO&#8217;s voice was used in a $243,000 scam. Here is a sample of what audio syncretization can achieve (the example is not related to the scam): In 2018, The Goolge&#8217;s Tacotron team created a text to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/2019\/11\/14\/audio-deepfakes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beware of Deepfake audio scams&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-gans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}