The Rise of Voice Cloning Technology: Implications for Identity Verification

For several months, artificial intelligence tools have been widely talked about, whether written discussion simulators like ChatGPT or fake photo generators. But now there are also voice cloning systems: just get an audio recording of the person you want to imitate, a task far from difficult these days.

“Many people have an online existence and have already left an audio trail on the Internet, especially those under 25. So it’s going to become very difficult in the future, in this world with such software, to verify identities“, worries Sinead Bovell, a specialist in new technologies from New York. For a handful of dollars, it is possible to download software in a few minutes, without any need to be a computer genius. Many tutorials to guide Internet users are already online.

Axel Monnier, the TF1 journalist, tried the experiment by uploading an extract of his own voice. Passed through the mill of the software, it comes out with a strong American accent, a result therefore not very convincing. But with an English-speaking personality on the other hand, the audio created by the AI ​​is much more impressive, for example when asked to imitate the voice of Joe Biden.