Fake news 2.0: AI will soon be able to mimic any human voice

This could create security nightmares. Worse still, it could strip away from each of us a part of our uniqueness. But companies, universities and governments are already working furiously to decode the human voice for many applications. Technologically adept nation states (the US, China and Estonia) have waded into this space and tech giants such as Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook also have special projects on voice. It's not that hard to develop an artificial voice, then model and reproduce spoken words and phrases.