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Deepfake voices can fool voice-recognition software (arxiv.org)
23 points by hui-zheng on Oct 1, 2021 | hide | past | pdf | 1 comment on HN

In plain words: Fake voices made by deep learning were played to people and to speaker-recognition and voice-login systems to see if they would accept them as real. Both were reliably fooled, and the defenses currently used against fake speech did not stop them.

Abstract · "Hello, It's Me": Deep Learning-based Speech Synthesis Attacks in the Real World

Advances in deep learning have introduced a new wave of voice synthesis tools, capable of producing audio that sounds as if spoken by a target speaker. If successful, such tools in the wrong hands will enable a range of powerful attacks against both humans and software systems (aka machines). This paper documents efforts and findings from a comprehensive experimental study on the impact of deep-learning based speech synthesis attacks on both human listeners and machines such as speaker recognition and voice-signin systems. We find that both humans and machines can be reliably fooled by synthetic speech and that existing defenses against synthesized speech fall short. These findings highlight the need to raise awareness and develop new protections against synthetic speech for both humans and machines.

Emily Wenger, Max Bronckers, Christian Cianfarani, Jenna Cryan, Angela Sha, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
arXiv:2109.09598 · cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.SD, eess.AS · submitted Sep 20, 2021
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This was known quite a while before and is trivial.

We already have it for faces.

A hilarious take on deepfakes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM