Survey or industry report
Consumer Reports assessment of AI voice cloning products
Consumer Reports, Consumer Reports, 2025
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- A March 2025 assessment in which Consumer Reports tested voice cloning products from six companies to see whether they could clone a voice without the speaker's consent and what safeguards they had.
- How much weight it carries
- An independent consumer organisation with a published method. The test covers six products at one point in time, so it does not describe every tool on the market.
Facts taken from this source
- Consumer Reports researchers easily created a voice clone from publicly available audio in four of the six voice cloning products they tested.
“researchers were able to easily create a voice clone based on publicly available audio in four of the six products in the test set” (Key findings)
- Consumer Reports found that a majority of the six voice cloning products it assessed lacked meaningful safeguards against fraud or misuse.
“CR found that a majority of the products assessed did not have meaningful safeguards to stop fraud or misuse of their product.” (Opening paragraph)