Man or machine? Toronto company finds a way to determine how real audio clips are

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Eyes may be the windows to the soul, but at Klick Labs, it's all about the voice.

Yan Fossat of Klick Labs poses for a photo in Toronto on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Fossat and his team at Klick Labs in Toronto have found a way to determine whether audio clips are voiced by humans or artificial intelligence. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan DenetteEyes may be the windows to the soul, but at Klick Labs, it's all about the voice.

But Yan Fossat, Klick Labs’ senior vice-president of digital health research and development, is hopeful his company can help make the world of AI a bit safer. For their own project, the Klick team assembled 49 humans with diverse backgrounds and accents, whose audio they fed to a deepfake generator to make synthetic clips.

Micropauses are less than a half second and macropauses are more than that time, she said. They often occur naturally when someone is speaking and simply takes a breath or is grasping for words.“We have a brain and it needs to think and we have lungs and we need to breathe. Machines don't have that, so they don't do it.”

 

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