How to clone a voice
Cloning any target speaker's voice
In 2017, the first Tacotron System opened up the world of audio deepfakes - computer genereated audio designed to mimic any given voice. In order to showcase this thread and sensititze the audience, we developed a deepfake system which can clone a target voice - and applied it to German chanellor Angela Merkel.
This interface allows a user to enter any text the wish, and have it said in the voice of the target person - in this case, Angela Merkel. While we use it only for demonstration purposes, an attacker may use this technology
- to commit fraud (see this CEO who has been scammed out of 243.000$) , or
- to extract sensitive information (see here: European MPs targeted by deepfake video calls imitating Russian opposition) ,
- etc.
That’s why we use the audio generated by our system to design and train deepfake detection systems, i.e. artificial intelligence specifialized to detect fake audio.
To get an impresson of the technology, find the full video here: