FTC Announces Winners of Voice Cloning Challenge

Summary
On April 8, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced four winning submissions for its Voice Cloning Challenge, the goal of which was to promote the development of ideas to protect consumers from the misuse of AI-generated voice cloning for fraud and other harms. The winning projects, from both large and small organizations, used various types of technology to detect voice cloning and prevent voice clips from being cloned—ranging from detecting biosignals to authenticating a speaker to an AI that identifies synthetic voices. This was the sixth Challenge the FTC has launched under the America COMPETES Act.