Content Verification Toolbox

The Content Verification Toolbox is a sophisticated suite of tools designed to tackle the growing challenges of detecting manipulation and synthesis in audio and audiovisual content. Leveraging cutting-edge signal analysis and AI technologies, the toolbox provides media professionals, law enforcement agencies, and industry partners with actionable and explainable insights to support the content verification process.

Available via REST API, this solution enables seamless integration into existing systems and workflows, ensuring flexibility and ease of use across various applications.

Benefits

Enhance human detection capabilities

Identify and pinpoint various forms of manipulation and synthesis that are often subtle or undetectable to humans.

Accelerate the verification process

Automatic annotation and advanced analysis tools significantly reduce the time required for thorough content examination, speeding up the verification workflow.

Track content provenance and evolution

Analyze how content has been reused and transformed, providing deeper insights into its origins and whether it has been decontextualized.

Empower informed decision-making

The toolbox offers explainable insights throughout the verification process, ensuring users retain full control and responsibility over final assessments.

Seamless API integration

Easily integrate the toolbox into existing workflows via a flexible REST API, enabling scalable, efficient, and customizable deployment options.

Content authentication

The suite also includes tools for proactively signing and authenticating content, enhancing content verification efforts by ensuring integrity from the outset.

Applications

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Media and news organizations

Detect manipulations, synthetic content, and decontextualization before publication, and assess source credibility, ensuring that only reliable information is shared, thereby maintaining audience trust and credibility.

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Social media platforms

Proactively identify and manage manipulated or synthetic media, minimizing the spread of misinformation and protecting the integrity of platform content.

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Brand protection and advertising

Continuously monitor and authenticate media associated with brands, preventing unauthorized manipulation and ensuring brand reputation and messaging are consistently upheld.

The features of the Content Verification Toolbox at a glance

Speech Synthesis and Audio Manipulation Detection

Offers reliable detection of fabricated, edited, or synthetic audio using a comprehensive set of analysis tools, enabling users to efficiently identify tampered or artificially generated speech.

Audio Provenance Analysis

Tracks the reuse, modification, and decontextualization of content, providing a detailed audit trail that supports thorough verification and enhances transparency.

Automatic Annotation

Utilizes advanced tools such as microphone/device identification, audio classification, and location detection to provide valuable insights, streamline verification workflows, and enrich content analysis.

Content Authentication

Safeguards media integrity by enabling proactive authentication, ensuring content has remained unaltered since its creation, thereby establishing a strong foundation for trust and reliability.

Technical information

Fraunhofer IDMT’s Content Verification Toolbox employs advanced signal analysis and AI algorithms, drawing on years of expertise in audio forensics. Developed with a focus on explainability and extensibility, the toolbox supports a variety of methodologies and features a modular structure, allowing users to implement individual tools or the complete suite according to specific requirements.

The solution is optimized for seamless integration into existing workflows and platforms via a flexible REST API, ensuring scalability and adaptability across a broad spectrum of applications and use cases.

Availability

The Content Verification Toolbox is available for licensing through flexible models, including

  • subscription,
  • pay-per-use, or
  • custom enterprise agreements.

It can be deployed by media companies, social media platforms, broadcasters, and other organizations focused on ensuring content integrity.

API-based access enables seamless integration into existing systems, while customizable licensing models allow for flexible scaling to meet specific operational requirements.

In addition to standard deployment, we offer tailored R&D services, including custom adaptations of the toolbox to address unique challenges and workflows. We provide ongoing R&D support to ensure optimal performance and alignment with evolving needs.

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Research topic

Media Forensics

Trustworthy media content

 

Research project

news-polygraph

Multi-modal, crowd-supported technology platform for disinformation analysis

 

Research project

vera.ai

Explainable AI-based disinformation and provenance analysis

 

Research project

AI4Media

Center of excellence for AI in media – Our contributions: Audio forensics, audio provenance analysis, music analysis, privacy and recommendation systems

 

Research project

DIGGER

Integration of audio forensic tools into the content verification platform TrulyMedia

 

Research project

GEI§T

Robust authentication of synthetic audio material

 

Research project

SpeechTrust+

Detection of AI-based speech synthesis and voice alienation for law enforcement