I heard your voice ! … or was it a clone created by AI?

Last Thursday, we played about with faces of people who didn’t exist. This week Thursday, September 19 we’ll have fun with voices of people who don’t exist and (more disturbingly) fake voices of people who do exist – voice clones. There are loads of websites which offer to “clone” your voice and some appear to be free. Why would you want to do this, and what are the implications? What’s the difference between cloning and speech recognition? What if someone uses my cloned voice to phone my bank? Can AI detect these fakes? Come on Thursday to have fun and see if you can tell the difference between a clone and the real thing…