Voice AI
A deep dive into the modern voice AI pipeline — from Whisper's speech recognition to neural TTS and voice synthesis — mapping every layer of the stack powering today's conversational AI and raising new questions about audio authenticity.
AI Fakes
A folk musician's identity and work became fodder for AI-generated fakes and a copyright troll, highlighting the growing vulnerability of independent artists in the synthetic media era.
deepfake detection
Modulate launches Velma Deepfake Detect, a tool focused on identifying AI-generated synthetic voices in real time, addressing growing concerns about voice cloning fraud and audio deepfakes.
Voice AI
A technical breakdown of modern voice AI architecture reveals a three-layer 'sandwich' of ASR, LLM reasoning, and TTS synthesis — the same pipeline powering voice cloning and real-time conversational AI.
deepfake detection
As deepfake technology advances, unified communications platforms face growing risks from AI-generated voice and video impersonation, forcing enterprises to rethink security strategies.
Voice Cloning
Tencent AI releases Covo-Audio, a 7-billion parameter open-source speech language model with a real-time inference pipeline for audio conversations and reasoning, advancing synthetic voice capabilities.
deepfake detection
Pindrop CEO Vijay Balasubramaniyan leads the charge against deepfake voice attacks, leveraging audio authentication technology to protect enterprises from AI-generated voice fraud.
Synthetic Audio
A new arXiv paper explores neuron-level steering of emotional expression in speech-generative large audio-language models, pointing to finer control in synthetic voice systems and new questions for authenticity and misuse.
deepfake detection
Wa'ed Ventures, Saudi Aramco's venture capital arm, has invested in Resemble AI, a US company developing voice cloning and deepfake detection technology.
deepfake detection
York University's forensic speech science team earns recognition at major Deepfake Detection Challenge, advancing techniques for identifying synthetic audio and voice cloning fraud.
deepfake detection
New research reveals the human brain can identify synthetic audio at a neurological level, even when listeners cannot consciously distinguish fakes from real recordings.
deepfake detection
Modern deepfakes are harder to spot than ever. Here are the key visual artifacts, audio glitches, and behavioral cues that reveal synthetic media in 2026.