Endless Thread Presents: Twenty Thousand Hertz
Endless Thread
WBUR
4.1 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Is your voice your own? Not anymore. This week on Endless Thread, we present "Deepfake Dallas," courtesy of our friends over at Twenty Thousand Hertz, a podcast revealing the stories behind the world’s most recognizable and interesting sounds. Find out how someone, using artificial intelligence, can make an algorithm that sounds just like you.
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| 0:00.0 | WBWR's last scene is back with surprising news stories about people, places, and things |
| 0:06.1 | that have gone missing, all told by tenacious public radio storytellers who refuse to let |
| 0:11.5 | mysteries go unsolved. |
| 0:13.7 | Don't miss season 3. |
| 0:15.2 | Out now. |
| 0:16.2 | Follow last scene wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:20.5 | Hey you guys like sound, right? |
| 0:23.1 | Straight into your ear holes? |
| 0:25.1 | Gross. |
| 0:26.1 | But here we are bringing some sounds to you. |
| 0:29.4 | And there sounds that we love. |
| 0:31.7 | But also sounds that we don't love? |
| 0:34.3 | Because they're fake, like so fake. |
| 0:36.8 | Deeply fake. |
| 0:38.6 | Can you tell we're about to tell you about deepfix? |
| 0:42.0 | Which in the year of our ladieship 2021 have high stakes? |
| 0:47.4 | Using computer algorithms to make creepily convincing video footage and audio footage that |
| 0:52.7 | never existed has been something experts have been warning us about when it comes to |
| 0:57.7 | everything from politics to porn. |
| 1:00.0 | The idea that you can make a truly convincing fake of the kind of real time existence of |
| 1:04.9 | someone's voice or their face or both is freaky and kind of amazing. |
| 1:11.8 | And we'd love to tell you more about it, but someone already did. |
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