Re:Show HN: Voice Age Verification
by wentw0rth on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @09:42AM
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Thanks for the comment/question:
> wouldn't it be far easier to bypass this than even face (live video) verification... or am I missing something?
Missing the experience of learning just how much information is in a clip of audio; replay/synthetic attack mitigation is baked in, and more cost-effective to run vs. video, and less creepy.
The mission: make the process easy (and inexpensive) as possible so that people can be verified at scale, without giving away their personal data and being the product.
> wouldn't it be far easier to bypass this than even face (live video) verification... or am I missing something?
Missing the experience of learning just how much information is in a clip of audio; replay/synthetic attack mitigation is baked in, and more cost-effective to run vs. video, and less creepy.
The mission: make the process easy (and inexpensive) as possible so that people can be verified at scale, without giving away their personal data and being the product.