A Canadian machine learning outfit has received ringing endorsements with the voices of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama discussing its technology. Montreal-based LyreBird uses machine learning to produce realistic-sounding voice audio from preexisting voices, but you wouldn't know it [f. By analyzing the voices of all three U.S. political figures, it was able to (openly) produce all three fake quotes, and while America may have need such an unlikely alliance of political ideologies, the public is anything but enthused. LyreBird takes a sample of any voice, at least one full minute of speech, and looks at the aspects of the voice that define it, that differentiate it most reliably from any other voice in the world. It then takes these reliable deviations from the platonic ideal of an English voice and tells its voice-synthesis component to make those same adjustments to its audio "wave-forms" as those sound curves are generated.