>because I've started to get concerned about what can be done, fraud-wise, with even small samples of my voice.
This vector was recently highlighted as a weakness of the Australian "Voiceprint" system(1)
It's also an excellent point to make that these tools can be useful for everyone. I find myself using a number of the accessibility tools simply to speed up some of my common interactions with the phone and watch.
I've also noticed that these technologies end up in other products. For example livetext is now a standard feature on macOS/iOS yet it's an accessibility feature originating in the screenreader to deal with text flattened in images. This technology sharing also gives us a bit of a preview of what they're working on (e.g. AR)
This vector was recently highlighted as a weakness of the Australian "Voiceprint" system(1)
It's also an excellent point to make that these tools can be useful for everyone. I find myself using a number of the accessibility tools simply to speed up some of my common interactions with the phone and watch.
I've also noticed that these technologies end up in other products. For example livetext is now a standard feature on macOS/iOS yet it's an accessibility feature originating in the screenreader to deal with text flattened in images. This technology sharing also gives us a bit of a preview of what they're working on (e.g. AR)
(1) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/voice-sys...