Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human
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Running an "eerily human" voice model locally on an M4 Max means high-fidelity synthetic voice is about to be cheap, offline, and hard to trace. If you operate in payments, support, or comms, assume voice as an auth factor is compromised and tighten verification this quarter.
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