Catherine Breslin By Talker

By Stephen Beech

AI-generated " deepfake " voices are now indistinguishable from real human voices, warns new research.

The study shows that the average listener can no longer distinguish between computer-simulated voices and those of real human beings.

Many people still think of AI-generated speech as sounding “fake” or unconvincing and easily told apart from human voices, say scientists.

But the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) study shows that AI voice technology has now reached a stage where it can create “voice clones” or deepfakes which sound just as realistic as human recordings.

The study, published in the journal PLOS One , compared real human voices with two different types of synthetic voices, generated using state-of-the-art AI

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