It was meant more as a reflection on how, due to how fast threat models evolve, even the seemingly innocuous act of recording 2 sentences on a random website can now be used to break into my bank account.

If we’re talking about specific parts like a regional dialect then I would agree, those are tricky to acquire later, at least to those undetectable levels. They can be extremely specific.

You are right regarding Galician, but Galician isn't Spanish, rather original Portuguese, where some words changed throughout the centuries.

The way we both speak is rather different than the native Spanish speakers, that never have been exposed to native Portuguese/Galician speakers.

In fact, even native Catalan speakers have easier time understanding Galician/Portuguese speakers, than Spanish speakers do, probably due to the French roots in Galician/Portuguese carried by the crusades involved in the founding of both regions and naturally influeced the language evolution.

Even my slavic gf was tricked for a few seconds and wasn't sure if it was some kind of eastern language she wasn't aware of.

And for the explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pik2R46xobA

I've heard it described as if a drunk russian was trying to speak spanish.

Or, given similar concerns about image and video generation, our faces.

It's a standardised sample, already correlated to text, close to the microphone, for one thing. You're just making it easier for them.

I mean I suppose you can use "like and subscribe", "without further ado", and "let's get started" as standardised samples if you want to catch a youtuber.

But AFAIK my voice isn't on the internet anywhere. Quite a lot of people are not.

There's a number of ways this information can be connected back, with varying precision, to the person who recorded it.

And we should have learned from the Cambridge Analytica scandal that data is used in ways we do not expect. For example, what if you don't care to reproduce someone's voice, but you do care to extract age/gender/racial background/sexual orientation from it?

I just saw an incredible Facebook reel of a voice actor, Shelby Young, saying the same thing in a striking range of theatrical voices, and I still wonder. How much of her true vocal fingerprint is unavoidably there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyNnyeu_kPU

(As a fan of old movies, "Vintage" was particularly impressive to me -- she is impersonating not just voices but also the choice of tonality those actors made in light of recording technology)

   #!/usr/bin/perl

   use CGI;
   $section = "toys";
   $author = "steveb";
   $title = "Your Mr. T Name";
   $s_title = "mrtname";
   $cat1 = "moviestv";
   print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
   require "makehead.pl";
   print &MakeHead;
   print <<EOFILE;
   <P>Your Mr. T name is:</P>
   <CENTER><P CLASS="head1">Fool</P></CENTER>
   EOFILE
   print &MakeFoot;