Have you ever wondered if the voice you’re hearing in avideo is AI-generated?Or you’ve listened to an audio clip from a politician or celebrity, and you’re not quite sure if they actually said that or not? Times have certainly changed, and a newChrome extensioncalledHiya Deepfake Voice Detectoris here to try to help.
The newChrome extensionworks by using AI to listen to voices played in a video or audio stream and then assigning the voice an “Authenticity score.” Speaking toEngadget,Hiya said “that third-party testers have validated the extension as over 99 percent accurate.”
TheHiya Deepkfake Voice Detectorextension is available on the Chrome web store now. Once you download it, you’ll be asked to make an account with Hiya and verify your email address. After that, you’re good to go and can start detecting whether voices are authentic or not.
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Does this new voice detector work?
I put it to the test to see if it can detect real or fake voices
The premise of the Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector sounds great, especially when you see AI-generated videos and deepfakes floating around everywhere now on platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.
To test to see if the new extension worked, I tried three videos on YouTube to see how it would detect the voices in them.
First off, I used avideo of Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, talking about things that inspire him. Using the Hiya extension, it analyzed Cook’s voice and gave it an authenticity score of 60/100 with the extension saying “our models are uncertain about this voice.” Since the video is fromGQ, I’m fairly certain that it is, in fact, Tim Cook. So the first result seems a bit off.
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For my second try, I used a video by popular techYouTuber Marquees Brownlee. The Hiya extension analyzed Brownlee’s voice and gave it an authenticity score of 95/100, stating that, “The sampled voice is likely authentic.” Considering the video was directly from Brownlee’s channel, I’d say it got this one right.
Finally, I tried using the extension a deepfake Morgan Freeman, a unique and instantly recognizable voice – a true test of the Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector. When I tested the video, the extension gave it a score of 89/100. The video isn’t actually Morgan Freeman, but it is a voice actor imitating Morgan Freeman, so the Hiya tool did technically accurately identify the voice as human and not AI.
Hiya’s AI voice detector Google Chrome extension is an innovative idea, especially when deepfakes and AI voices are floating all over the internet.
Update 20-08-2025 1:50pm ET:This story was updated to reflect the fact the Morgan Freeman deepfake video was a voice actor imitating Morgan Freeman and not an AI voice. The authenticity score was retested to reflect this.
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