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Re:Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone by pinpeliponni on Monday April 24, 2017 @10:21AM (#14184510)
Funny thing is, this is approximately where CIA was with similar technology in closer to 2000. They did some demos for politicians about how they can given anyone's fake their messages. That stuff is golden for propaganda means, and for confusing stuff like military chains of command. Today the CIA probably has worked out all the robotic artifacts already, and their output is really indistinguishable.
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Re:Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone by dmix on Monday April 24, 2017 @10:55AM (#14184770)
> Funny thing is, this is approximately where CIA was with similar technology in closer to 2000

Source?

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Re:Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone by abdias on Monday April 24, 2017 @10:37PM (#14190319)
Not OP, but here is one related source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin02...

I do not think the technology involved artificially generated voice though, but simply morphing someone's voice into sounding as the target voice.

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Re:Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone by nojvek on Monday April 24, 2017 @10:23AM (#14184532)
NNets just recently got really good. You are correct though, politicians would love this.

I believe technology would make a Judge's life really hard.

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Re:Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone by nemo1618 on Monday April 24, 2017 @12:20PM (#14185533)
Clearly the solution is to employ a GAN, so that we simultaneously get artificial voices that are indistinguishable to the human ear, as well as judges that are able to reliably distinguish them.
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Re:Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone by heliumcraft on Monday April 24, 2017 @11:00AM (#14184800)
source?
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