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The first original record of mimicking human voice dates back to 1779, in Russia. Voice cloning with artificial intelligence is used for a myriad of applications in industries such as film, video game production, audiobooks and podcasts. Still, we cannot ignore the quite high likelihood of unethical applications of this technology, through which people could be made to believe that someone said something they haven’t. This raises the need for safeguards to prevent malevolent uses of synthesized voices. These safeguards may pertain to various domains, like authentication by means of an audio fingerprint layered atop generated voices.