Consumer Reports’ Assessment of AI Voice Cloning Products - Consumer Reports
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Washington, DC – Consumer Reports (CR) released findings today from an assessment of voice cloning products from six companies: Descript, ElevenLabs, Lovo, PlayHT, Resemble AI, and Speechify. CR found that a majority of the products assessed did not have meaningful safeguards to stop fraud or misuse of their product.  Many AI voice cloning products enable […]
  • CR researchers were able to easily create a voice clone based on publicly available audio in four of the six products in the test set:
  1. These products did not employ any technical mechanisms to ensure researchers had the speaker’s consent to generate a clone or to limit the cloning to the user’s own voice. These companies—ElevenLabs, Speechify, PlayHT, and Lovo—required only that researchers check a box confirming that they had the legal right to clone the voice or make a similar self-attestation.
  2. Descript and Resemble AI took steps to make it more difficult for customers to misuse their products by creating a non-consensual voice clone.
  • Four of the six companies (Speechify, Lovo, PlayHT, and Descript) required only a customer’s name and/or email address to make an account.