Deepfake voice fraud ring dismantled after audio forensics breakthrough
Investigators traced synthetic voice notes back to a single text-to-speech model using spectrogram artefacts and metadata recovered from seized handsets.
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Investigators traced synthetic voice notes back to a single text-to-speech model using spectrogram artefacts and metadata recovered from seized handsets.
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