Sound Ledger¹ (Voice Camouflage, Neural Voices)

Audio culture by the numbers

68.9: The percent of increased errors in transcriptions for voices using “Neural Voice Camouflage” privacy technology

20,843: The number of consecutive hours that Lofi Girl broadcast on YouTube before the account was, temporarily (for different reasons), taken down

330: The number of neural voices (in over 110 languages) provided by Microsoft’s Azure platform

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¹Footnotes

Camouflage: [science.org](https://www.science.org/content/article/technology-spying-you-new-ai-could-prevent-eavesdropping). Lofi: [arstechnica.com](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/08/how-listening-to-uninterrupted-noise-helped-millions-to-focus/). Azure: [fastcompany.com](https://www.fastcompany.com/90775427/amazon-grandma-alexa-evolution-text-to-speech)

*Originally published in the August 8, 2022, edition of the This Week in Sound email newsletter. Get it in your inbox via [tinyletter.com/disquiet](https://tinyletter.com/disquiet).*

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