Deepfakes Can Replicate Human Voices Now -- Maybe Yours

It's not just your face that can be convincingly replicated by a deepfake. It's also your voice -- quite easily as journalist Chloe Beltman found: Given the complexities of speech synthesis, it's quite a shock to find out just how easy it is to order one up. For a basic conversational build, all a customer has to do is record themselves saying a bunch of scripted lines for roughly an hour. "We extract 10 to 15 minutes of net recordings for a basic build," says Speech Morphing founder and CEO Fathy Yassa. The hundreds of phrases I record so that Speech Morphing can build my digital voice double seem very random: "Here the explosion of mirth drowned him out."