BLUF

Voice clones now mimic breaths, pauses and disfluencies, making human judgement unreliable. Audio forensics examines waveform features, whilst embedded watermarks offer promising but imperfect verification as cloning tools continue evolving rapidly.

Learning Outcomes:

· Explain voice-cloning risks to military communication authentication.
· Analyse audio forensics supporting command-message verification processes.
· Assess synthetic audio risks to operational decision-making and command integrity.

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