Adams told reporters about the phone calls, called robocalls, recently.

亚当斯最近向记者透露了有关自动语音电话的信息。

In the meantime, phone companies are working on systems that more effectively identify and block illegal robocalls.

与此同时，电话公司正在研发更有效识别和阻止非法电话的系统。

Not all robocalls are fake or illegal.

并不是所有的机器人电话都是假的或者非法的。

These developments are likely to make our current problems with robocalls much worse.

这样的发展会使得我们现在面对的机器人诈骗电话问题更加严重。

The reason that robocalls are a headache has less to do with amount than precision.

现在机器人诈骗电话让人头疼主要是因为精确度而不是数量。

A spokesperson for Adams' office said they used the ElevenLabs tool for their robocalls.

亚当斯办公室的一位发言人表示，他们使用了ElevenLabs工具来处理自助语音电话。

" The robocalls that we're using, we're using different languages to speak directly to the diversity of New Yorkers."

“我们使用的是自动语音电话，我们使用不同的语言直接与不同的纽约人交谈。”

Robocalls are made using what's called voice over internet protocol or VOIP for short.

机器人电话使用的是所谓的语音通过互联网协议或简称 VOIP。

The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project called Adams' robocalls an unethical use of AI that is misleading to the people of New York.

监视技术监督项目称亚当斯的自动语音电话是对人工智能的不道德使用，误导了纽约人民。

38. How does the author feel about the solutions to problem of robocalls?

38. 作者如何看待robocalls问题的解决方案？

In the meantime, phone companies are working on systems that more effectively identify and block illegal robocalls, but for now robocallers will likely keep on calling you.

与此同时，电话公司正在研究能够更加有效识别和阻拦非法预录电话的系统，但就目前来看，你很有可能会继续被这些电话骚扰。

Since answering a robocall lets the computer know you might engage, in that case get ready for even more robocalls now that you`re on the hot list.

由于接听机器人电话会让计算机知道你可能参与其中，那么既然你已经上了热门电话名单，那就准备好接听更多的机器人电话吧。

If its approved, it would take effect later this year and what the new rule would do is allow telecommunication companies to automatically block certain robocalls from reaching your phone.

如果获得批准，它将在今年晚些时候生效，新规则将允许电信公司自动阻止某些机器人呼叫到达你的手机。

Today the independent U.S. government agency makes rules for all forms of mass communication and its considering a new plan that could reduce the amount of robocalls people get.

今天，这个独立的美国政府机构为各种形式的大众传播制定了规则，并且正在考虑一项新的计划，以减少人们接听机器电话的数量。

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.

这些发展可能会使我们当前的机器人电话问题变得更糟。 robocalls 令人头疼的原因与数量无关，而与精度有关。

It's the same technology used in popular apps like Facetime and Skype and it's important because no international phone bill means robocalls are incredibly cheap and easy to make.

它和流行的应用程序如 Facetime 和 Skype 使用的技术是一样的，这很重要，因为没有国际电话账单意味着机器人通话非常便宜，而且很容易打。

But with international call centers shutdown because of COVID-19 and with governments trying to prevent scams related to the disease, robocalls dropped 40 percent between February and April according to a U.S. robocall prevention service.

但随着国际呼叫中心因 COVID-19 而关闭，加上各国政府努力防范与此病相关的诈骗，据美国一家防诈骗电话服务机构称，今年 2 月至 4 月间，骚扰电话数量下降了40%。

Now in the United States, the majority of these calls are illegal under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, but because robocalls can originate from anywhere in the world, it's extremely difficult to enforce the law.

目前，根据《电话消费者保护法案》，大多数这样的电话在美国都是违法的，但是因为预录电话可以在世界上的任何地方拨出，该法案便十分难以执行。

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 ( ).

robocalls 的问题已经变得如此严重，以至于许多人现在拒绝接听来自他们不认识的号码的电话。到明年，我们接到的电话中有一半是诈骗电话 ( )。