Chandigarh, Sept. 23 -- A nine-member team from the department of anthropology at Panjab University, led by master's student Pratibha and guided by renowned forensic scientist professor Kewal Krishan, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) software capable of distinguishing AI-generated (cloned) voices from real human voices.

The team, comprising eight women, trained the software using a dataset of 100 audio samples - 50 real human voices and 50 computer-generated ones.

The project, which was part of Pratibha's master's dissertation, employed a Support Vector Machine (SVM) model - a specialised AI tool designed to capture tone, texture, and unique speech patterns. During testing, the software demonstrated an accuracy rate of 80% ...