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> biometrics aren't passwords. You can't rotate your voice. "My voice is my passport. Verify me." I have to renew my passport every 10 years or so. How do I d
by inetknght 6mo ago
> biometrics aren't passwords. You can't rotate your voice.
"My voice is my passport. Verify me."
I have to renew my passport every 10 years or so. How do I do that with my voice? I guess it's time to take some vocal lessons.
- Romario77 6mo agojust take up smoking heavily
- throwaway67743 6mo agoDespite popular belief, even heavy smoking does not alter your voice in a significant way.
- reaperducer 6mo agoDespite popular belief, even heavy smoking does not alter your voice in a significant way. I guess you don't listen to Sinatra.
- ssl-3 6mo agoOr John Mellencamp, who repeatedly states in interviews that he likes what smoking does to his singing voice.
- terbo 6mo agoDepends on what you're smoking
- DANmode 6mo agoand mostly how.
- HansHamster 6mo agobacon!
- 9991 6mo agoSource: it came to me in a dream.
- coldtea 6mo agoThere's this myth (that came to you in pop culture) that you end up sounding like Tom Waits. In reality, some phlegm aside, their voice is still the same in any way that matters. If you knew people who didn't smoke and started (not uncommon in the 80s and 90s, quite a few people I know started smoking in university, or after the stress of a first job, some even later), and also the inverse, you can trivially hear it for yourself.
- throwaway67743 6mo agoMy voice is exactly the same as before I started smoking heavily, and I have never had any of the associated problems that most people seem to have (lung capacity, stamina, infections, phlegm etc) - pot luck I guess, like most things
- idiomaddict 6mo agoDo you have a source for that? I can tell with pretty good accuracy whether my students smoke from their voices (adult language learners, we take smoke breaks together and they have no reason to conceal it), and would be very surprised if I’m just that lucky and there’s nothing a person can pick up on acoustically.
- throwaway67743 6mo ago20 years of heavy smoking :) Although it does seem to affect some people more than others for sure, I guess it depends how and what you're smoking.
- argee 6mo agoEasier to inhale an undisclosed amount of helium before recording your password voice
- toss1 6mo agoExcellent idea! Do you need to calibrate it to be able to repeat it, and does that calibration change if you are at a different altitude and in different conditions, such as humidity? Does merely changing altitude (or ambient pressure) change voice enough to be considered different by a recognition or synthesizing system?
- malfist 6mo agoI recommend sulfur hexafluoride for something harder to replicate. Nothing like making hackers risk their life to impersonate you
- alasdair_ 6mo agoOr skip the half measures and go straight for the dioxygen diflouride. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
- eqvinox 6mo agoReminds me of the Interrail data breach [https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/eurail-data-breach-308000-travelers-passport-numbers-discovereu-2026/ https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/eurail-data-breach-3080...] The fediverse take on that was "customers are advised to rotate their faces and birthdays."
- nikkaelle 6mo agoVocal lessons are both a lot of fun and a lot of work. I haven't been using any voiceprint systems but I know most humans are unable to tell that my trained voice is the same physical person as my old voice. Would be curious to find out if an AI voiceprint system can discern whether it's the same or not.
- wholinator2 6mo agoAre you talking about singing lessons, or actual talking training? Singing lessons helped me sing but didn't change the way i talked at all, but i was only able to afford them for a summer so maybe it takes more time than that
- nikkaelle 6mo agoI'm referring to speaking, not singing. After a _lot_ of work, I can speak passably as a woman or man and switch freely between the two. Depending on context I generally choose just one for the entire conversation, as switching tends to cause whiplash in the listener (^_^).
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 6mo agoI'm curious as to what prompted you to pursue this ability.
- wahnfrieden 6mo agoThere is a common enough need for this for some
- nikkaelle 6mo agoI'm trans. The ability to switch mid-sentence is mostly just something I discovered I can do and is fun. But the ability to pass as my real gender is something that helps me feel safe. And when needed, being able to occasionally pass as my prior gender (e.g., when calling my bank until I can change my name/gender legally), it also quite useful.
- thedrexster 6mo ago>> "My voice is my passport. Verify me." Well met, fellow Uplinker!!
- alasdair_ 6mo ago>Well met, fellow Uplinker!! I'm pretty sure this person worked at Playtronics.
- hkt 6mo agoSmoke 40 cigarettes a day, your voice will be unrecognisable in no time
- bonesss 6mo agoAlso: it’s not just the first order smoking, respiratory issues, increased chance of illness, and chronic coughing can damage your voices presentation.
- anilakar 6mo agoBiometrics are "what you are", not "what you know" or "what you have". Voice fingeprinting is essentially useless because it is easily recorded and reproduced.
- Sander_Marechal 6mo agoI have been telling people for years that biometrics (face, fingerprint, voice) is your username, not your password. But people are easily swayed by convenience.
- noosphr 6mo agoIf your user name is tattooed on your forehead, yes.
- Sander_Marechal 6mo agoFor all intents an purposes it is, especially face ID. Also, courts in most countries can compel you to provide biometrics. But many cannot compel you to reveal passwords.