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by jononor 1972 days ago
This is very poor opsec advice. Robust audio watermarking is standard technology for many years now, and can be licensed from multiple vendors. If Zoom (or any other actor) cares enough to watermark their audio, you must assume that it may be hard to detect and remove.
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A vocoder would probably do a good job, considering it'd put the audio into a speech basis.
A vo-coder is probably the best off-the-shelf technology. Of course a challenge with making invasive changes to the audio (in order to defeat watermarking), is that people may claim that the audio is fake/misrepresented. Vocoded audio will not sound like the original speakers, and may have artifacts. Lipsync may also be slightly off. So one would have to be careful to communicate these limitations. Which the general public may not have much interest in understanding... Adversarial opponents may latch on to these things and use it to discredit the recordings.

An more conservative approach would be to transcribe the audio into text, and only offer the audio to (more) trusted parties for verification.

Agreed. My comment was poorly worded as I did not intend to give advice.