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58% -- ai voice misclassified as human rate for AI-cloned voices (2025)
58% of AI-cloned voices were misclassified as human in controlled blind tests.
- Controlled blind tests
- Published in PLOS One
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58%
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2025
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95
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Queen Mary University of London
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https://virvid.ai/blog/talk-to-camera-vs-ai-voice ↗
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Queen Mary University of London
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Queen Mary University of London blind listening tests published in PLOS One
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AI-cloned voices: 58% ai voice misclassified as human rate. Source: Queen Mary University of London (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-voice-misclassified-human
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