AI-generated audio that mimics humans can be so convincing that people can’t tell the difference a quarter of the time – even when they’re trained to identify faked voices, a new study claims. Researchers at University College London investigated how accurately humans
Germany plans to allow sound recording of some criminal trials, ending the decades-long practice of requiring judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers to rely on notes and their memory. Cabinet approved a plan Wednesday that provides the basis for automated transcription of recordings
The Taliban have shared a rare audio message from their supreme leader, who says justice is an instrument for the Afghan government’s survival. Hibatullah Akhundzada, an Islamic scholar, almost never appears in public and hardly ever leaves the Taliban heartland in southern
Microsoft’s new language model Vall-E is reportedly able to imitate any voice using just a three-second sample recording. The recently released AI tool was tested on 60,000 hours of English speech data. Researchers said in a paper out of Cornell University that it
Sir Keir Starmer was left red-faced as the audio cut out just moments into his first major speech of 2023. The speech outlined the Labour party’s vision for the UK, seeing the Labour leader pledge to deliver a “transformed state” if the