Endless Thread Presents: Twenty Thousand Hertz

Is your voice your own? Not anymore. This week on Endless Thread, we bring you an episode from our friends over at Twenty Thousand Hertz, a podcast revealing the stories behind the world’s most recognizable and interesting sounds.

In this episode, "Deepfake Dallas," Twenty Thousand Hertz explains how artificial intelligence can be used to make an algorithm that sounds just like you. And then that voice can say... whatever someone wants it to say. Welcome to the world of audio deepfakes, featuring deepfake wizard Tim McSmythurs, cybersecurity expert Riana Pfefferkorn, and Deepfake Dallas himself.

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