deepfake detection
Managed service providers are increasingly positioning deepfake detection and synthetic media defense as a core offering, responding to surging enterprise demand for protection against voice cloning and AI-driven impersonation attacks.
deepfakes
Deepfake incidents impersonating US government officials are accelerating, with synthetic voice and video being deployed in social engineering attacks against senior figures and federal staff.
AI avatars
Chinese tech employees are being asked to train AI clones of themselves for livestreaming, customer service, and content creation—and some are starting to push back against the synthetic doubles replacing them.
deepfakes
Real-time deepfakes and voice cloning are turning video conferencing into a new attack surface. Here's how AI-powered impersonation exploits trust in virtual meetings and what security gaps remain.
Meta AI
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly developing an AI version of himself capable of attending meetings on his behalf, raising major questions about AI avatars, synthetic identity, and digital authenticity.
text-to-speech
A new research paper explores how neural networks can automate the evaluation of text-to-speech systems, replacing costly human assessments with learned quality metrics for synthetic speech.
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.