Scaling Audio Data Collection to Fight Deepfakes: Reality Defender x Voiceform

Challenge

Reality Defender secures communication channels against deepfake impersonations, enabling enterprises and governments to operate confidently. To maintain the highest standards in their anti-deepfake solutions, Reality Defender requires diverse and high-quality audio datasets. Typically, this process would involve scheduling one-on-one interviews, which are both expensive and time-consuming. Additionally, gathering such data across multiple languages and demographics presented challenges in scalability, technical compliance, and participant experience.

Solution

Reality Defender turned to Voiceform to collect authentic voice data from real humans at scale across eight languages, enabling the development of diverse and high-quality audio datasets for their AI models. By leveraging Voiceform, Reality Defender was able to conduct hundreds of interviews simultaneously, scaling what would typically be one-on-one interviews on a video call into an efficient, streamlined process. Voiceform’s conversational AI surveys played a pivotal role in achieving this scalability by creating an engaging and natural interaction for participants. Voiceform’s powerful and intuitive survey tools provided the foundation for:

• Audio Data Collection: Voiceform’s integrated audio tools enabled Reality Defender to capture high-quality audio data directly within surveys.
• Multi-Language Support: The multilingual capabilities in Voiceform allowed for customized workflows, reducing participant confusion and ensuring clarity across eight languages.
• Technical Compliance: Features such as audio pre-processing and live playback reduced technical issues and improved completion rates.

Implementation

Voiceform’s templating features, easy-to-use survey builder, and advanced capabilities enabled Reality Defender to:

1. Launch surveys in eight languages using Voiceform’s survey builder and translation capabilities, ensuring clarity and precision in every language.
2. Leverage Voiceform’s templating tools and collaboration features to streamline the survey design process, reducing time spent on repetitive tasks.
3. Utilize Voiceform’s AI-driven tools to enhance survey workflows and data quality, making it easier to manage complex datasets.
4. Rapidly prototype and deploy surveys with audio collection components.
5. Crowdsource diverse datasets for three major dataset releases.
6. Minimize time and resources spent on technical troubleshooting and participant onboarding.

Results

With Voiceform, Reality Defender achieved:

• Improved Data Quality: High-quality audio datasets with fewer technical issues.
• Enhanced Efficiency: Faster survey deployment and streamlined participant workflows.
• Expanded Reach: Successful data collection across eight languages, enabling Reality Defender to better serve their global clientele.

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