In This Episode: Pretend voices for good or evil. VOIP can do anything.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

Our guest is … a virtual Randy

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

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  • LN: Audio synthesis… making pretend voices
    
    • 2:00 Using https://beta.elevenlabs.io/ – Playing some samples of virtual voice.
      
    • 5:40 Audio deep fake is trivially easy
      
    • 8:00 banking software
      
    • Sound passwords come over POTS – Plain Old Telephone System lines
      
    • 11:30 GR – Content creation possibilities
      
      • Easier audio setup
        
      • 13:25 Speaking clearly
        
      • 15:00 Other voices
        
      • 20:00 Redo – virtual voice overs
        
      • 21:00 If you can’t speak
        
      
      
    
    
  • 25:00 GR: Moving a Landline 
    
    • Google fiber makes VOIP possible
      
    • 28:00 Porting your number. Easier than expected
      
    • 33:00 So many configurations
      
    • 34:00 number of phones in the house
      
    • 36:00 Vonage
      
    • 45:00 Google number
      
    • https://voip.ms 
      
    • https://www.grandstream.com/products/gateways-and-atas/analog-telephone-adaptors/product/ht802  
      
    
    
  • 48:00 LN: Massive external drive
    
    • 51:00 GR: 22 Terabytes!!!
      
    
    
  
  

• 52:00 LN: Picard. Mandalorian. The Last Of Us. Carnival Row.
  
• 54:00 GR: Off Satellite TV. YouTube TV… testing.
  
  • 1:00:00 Buffy the vampire slayer
    
  
  

• 1:04:00 LN:  My free resources page, where my most important book – The Ask Leo! Guide to Staying Safe Online – was updated while we were out.
  
• 1:05:06 GR: Avoid This Mistake When Emailing Images