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Research Notes: When Ears Stop Being Witnesses

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A Z Mackay
Jun 04, 2025
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The Starting Question

If you can clone anyone’s voice in thirty seconds for five dollars a month, what happens to all the legal infrastructure built on the assumption that a voice on tape is the voice it sounds like?

The trigger was a Lawfare analysis pointing out that Federal Rule of Evidence 901 still permits authentication through “voice identification…

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