2019年高考英语北京卷 - 阅读理解C

The problem of robocalls has gotten so bad that many people now refuse to pick up calls from numbers they don't know. By next year, half of the calls we receive will be scams. We are finally waking up to the severity of the problem by supporting and developing a group of tools, apps and approaches intended to prevent scammers from getting through. Unfortunately, it's too little, too late. By the time these “solutions" become widely available,scammers will have moved onto cleverer means. In the near future, it's not just going to be the number you see on your screen that will be in doubt. Soon you will also question whether the voice you're hearing is actually real.
自动语音电话的问题已经变得如此严重,以至于许多人现在拒绝接听陌生号码的电话。到明年,我们收到的电话将有一半是诈骗电话。我们终于意识到问题的严重性,支持并开发了一组工具、应用程序和方案,用来阻止骗子打通电话。不幸的是,太少而又太晚。当这些“解决方案”被广泛使用,骗子就会采用更高明的手段。在不久的将来,不仅在屏幕上看到的电话号码有疑问,而且很快你会怀疑你听到的声音是不是真的。

That's because there are a number of powerful voice manipulation and automation technologies that are about to become widely available for anyone to use .At this year's I/O Conference ,a company showed a new voice technology able to produce such a convincing human–sounding voice that it was able to speak to a receptionist and book a reservation without detection.
这是因为有很多强大的声音处理和自动化技术将广泛投入使用。今年的I/O大会上,一家公司展示了一种新的声音技术,能够产生令人信服的人类发出的声音,可以和接待人员对话,预订房间而不被察觉。

These developments are likely to make our current problems with robocalls much worse. The reason that robocalls are a headache has less to do with amount than precision. A decade of data breaches of personal information has led to a situation where scammers can easily learn your mother 's name, and far more. Armed with this knowledge, they're able to carry out individually targeted campaigns to cheat people. This means. for example,that a scammer could call you from what looks to be a familiar number and talk to you using a voice that sounds exactly like your bank teller 's, ricking you into "confirming " your address,mother's name,and card number. Scammers follow money, so companies will be the worst hit. A lot of business is still done over the phone, and much of it is based on trust and existing relationships. Voice manipulation technologies may weaken that gradually.
骗子追逐金钱,因此公司将受到最严重的打击。很多业务仍然是通过电话进行的,其中很多是基于信任和现有关系。语音处理技术可能会逐渐削弱这一点。
这些发展可能会使目前的自动语音电话问题变得更糟。自动语音电话令人头痛的原因与其说是数量,不如说是准确性。十年来个人信息的数据泄露导致骗子可以很容易地知道你母亲的名字,甚至更多。有了这些,他们能够进行有针对性的活动来欺骗你们。这意味着。例如,一个骗子可以用一个你看起来很熟悉的号码打电话给你,用一个听起来很像你银行出纳员的声音和你说话,让你“确认”你的地址、母亲的名字和卡号。骗子紧跟着就会骗钱,公司将受到最严重的打击。许多业务仍然是通过电话完成的,其中许多是基于信任和现有的关系。语音处理技术可能会逐渐削弱这一点。

We need to deal with the insecure nature of our telecom networks. Phone carriers and consumers need to work together to find ways of determining and communicating what is real. That might mean either developing a uniform way to mark videos and images, showing when and who they were made by, or abandoning phone calls altogether and moving towards data-based communications—using apps like FaceTime or WhatsApp, which can be tied to your identity.
我们需要解决电信网络的不安全性。电话运营商和消费者需要共同努力,找到方法确认电话内容是真实的并且沟通也是真实的。这可能意味着要开发一种统一的方法来标记视频和图像,显示何时何人所作,或者干脆放弃电话,转向基于数据的通信——使用FaceTime或WhatsApp等应用,这些应用可以与你的身份绑定。

Credibility is hard to earn but easy to lose, and the problem is only going to harder from here on out.
信用很难获得,但容易失去,从现在开始,问题只会变得更加严重。

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