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The 3 second audio clip that exposed a fake news clip
Used to trust any video with a news logo. Then last month I ran a local politician's speech through a spectrogram. Saw the voice pattern jump mid-sentence, same pitch but different resonance. That 3 second glitch told me it was stitched from two takes. Now I check audio waveforms before I share anything. Has anyone else caught a splice by listening with headphones on 0.5x speed?
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logan52524d ago
Did you notice how this same trick shows up in other places once you start looking? Like how a photo can look totally normal until you zoom in and see the shadow going the wrong way, or how a "live" TV interview can have a tiny lip sync slip that gives away it was pre-recorded. I got burned last year by a clip of a city council meeting that turned out to be cut together from two different days, and the only tell was how the room noise changed for half a second when he took a breath. It's wild that our ears can catch stuff our eyes just breeze right past. Once you train yourself to hear those little jumps, you kind of can't unhear them, and it makes you slow down before hitting share on anything.
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