Yesterday Apple I released a brief overview of new functions for iOS 17, which will appear later this year. Two interesting functions called “Live Speech” and “Personal Voice”.
instantly attract attention.
“Live Speech” (“Live speech”) is a function aimed at increasing inclusiveness and facilitating access to full voice calls to people who have certain problems with the speech apparatus caused by certain diseases. Live Speech allows, for example, a working call or personal conversation on Facetime, to enter the text from the keyboard in a special field, and it will be voiced by an artificial speech synthesizer, which will be loudly and clearly transferred to the rest of the conversation.
“Personal voice” (“personal voice”) is a function that allows a person to digitize his own voice and use it in conjunction with “live Spech” in order to speak with other people on the same audio calls without pronouncing without saying words. The function is also aimed at people who over time can lose their own voice.
“For users who are facing an ambulance of speech in connection with the diagnosed BAS (lateral amyotrophic sclerosis) or other diseases that can gradually affect the ability to speak,” personal voice “is a simple and safe way to create an artificial voice similar to a similar Their own, ”they say in Cupertino
According to Apple, it will be enough to read out loudly for 15 minutes text hints on the iPhone or iPad so that thanks to machine learning, the system can create a voice that is as similar to the real voice of a person.
Undoubtedly, Apple’s aspirations are more comfortable to make the life of their users more comfortable, however, such a function, by default, built into ordinary iPhone, will surely discover new horizons for interaction with relatives and acquaintances of potential victims.
In early April, we reported that the rapid development of neural networks had already led to the fraudulent calls with fake voices. Moreover, such stories often shock with their details.
It is not completely clear whether it will be possible to use new functions in ordinary telephone conversations on a cellular network or to reproduce the written text without calls in principle, but if this system has weaknesses, the attackers will definitely identify them over time and will be able to use them in advanced and advanced and in advanced and extremely realistic schemes of social engineering.
Last week we already wrote about precautions so as not to become a victim of telephone fraud with a fake voice. We recommend that you read the information again, as well as maintain vigilance even in communication with loved ones. Modern technologies are much more insidious than they seem.