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many voice cloning programs, including ElevenLabs, Speechify, PlayHT, and Lovo, have flimsy barriers to prevent nonconsensual impersonations. (www.consumerreports.org)
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  • CR researchers were able to easily create a voice clone based on publicly available audio in four of the six products in the test set:
  1. These products did not employ any technical mechanisms to ensure researchers had the speaker’s consent to generate a clone or to limit the cloning to the user’s own voice. These companies—ElevenLabs, Speechify, PlayHT, and Lovo—required only that researchers check a box confirming that they had the legal right to clone the voice or make a similar self-attestation.
  2. Descript and Resemble AI took steps to make it more difficult for customers to misuse their products by creating a non-consensual voice clone.
  • Four of the six companies (Speechify, Lovo, PlayHT, and Descript) required only a customer’s name and/or email address to make an account.
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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok, but can I copy and paste the entire text of an ebook into one of these voice generators and get out a simple mp3 result that doesn't suck? Asking for a friend.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 points 13 hours ago

Not free, but adauris.ai