A brand new AI-powered instrument might help journalists detect audio deepfakes in Spanish

Journalists can now establish Spanish-language deepfake audio utilizing a brand new instrument referred to as VerificAudio launched Tuesday, in keeping with an announcement from Prisa Media.

“In a brand new disinformation ecosystem the place cloned voices are actually virtually imperceptible and in 2024 50% of the inhabitants will vote, immediately we’re launching an utility mission from #IA to #audio: VerificAudio, a instrument to detect Audio deepfakes,” Ana Ormaechea, Prisa Radio’s chief digital officer tweeted.

En un nuevo ecosistema de desinformación donde las voces clonadas son ya casi imperceptibles y en 2024 vota el 50% de la población, lanzamos hoy un proyecto de aplicación de la #IA al #audio: VerificAudio, una herramienta para detectar deepfakes de Audio: https://t.co/rLw00Xcz80

— ana ormaechea (@aormaechea) March 12, 2024

VerificAudio makes use of each identification and comparability fashions, which signifies that when journalists add an audio file, the instrument can establish the chance of the audio being actual or pretend. Then, if the consumer has an actual audio clip of the voice they’re testing, the comparability system can decide if the file being examined is cloned or not.

Prisa Media, which owns El País, El HuffPost, monetary newspaper Cinco Días, sports activities day by day AS, and 1,200 radio stations throughout Spain and Latin America, developed the instrument with the Google News Initiative and Spanish know-how firm Minsait. The instrument is presently accessible to Prisa’s newsrooms in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Spain, and is engaged on rolling it out to all of its journalists world wide.

“This mission that was born in [Colombian media company] Caracol and is progressively spreading to all our newsrooms, is a part of PRISA’s dedication to the combat in opposition to disinformation and advocates for high quality journalism,” José Gutiérrez, Prisa Media’s director of options, digital and know-how, mentioned within the launch. “Technology has grow to be a weapon to combat disinformation and deepfakes and can also be a brand new important instrument for journalists. We imagine that with the event of synthetic intelligence many alternatives are created, but in addition many risks that have to be confronted as they’re detected.”

On VerificAudio’s web site, customers can check whether or not or not they’ll distinguish an actual voice from a faked one. Users also can add audio recordsdata they need checked for Prisa Media journalists to research (WhatsApp audio recordsdata are downloadable, FYI!).