-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 2 Feb 1994, Mike Markley wrote:
| From: Eli Brandt <netmail!ebrandt@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
| > HIGH-TECH SNOOP GADGET. A super-secret branch of the Canadian Security | > Intelligence Service has awarded three contracts to a Montreal firm to mak e | > equipment that can quickly isolate key words and phrases from millions of | > airborne phone, fax, radio signals and other transmissions. The hardware | > has the "Orwellian potential to sweep through ... and keep records of all | > conversations," said one CSIS critic. (CTV National News, 01/31/94 11:00 | > pm). | | Dunno how feasible this kind of keyword recognition presently is, | but here's another reason to encrypt.
I'd be curious to see how they are going to do voice recognition on random conversations. Unless I am very sadly out of date you need to teach the pattern matcher individual voices.
You'd be surprised. For example, Plaintalk, a system extension bundled with the AV-series macintoshes, does voice recognition based solely on phonemes. Although it is not perfect yet, I can personally attest to having walked up to a model on display in a store, tried a few simple commands by voice, and had no problem with recognition. The technology _is_ there. Jim Wise wisej@acf4.nyu.edu jaw7254@acfcluster.nyu.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3 iQCVAgUBLVBRwzS8O1DgkhNpAQEQcgP/cQZm7qvbwTzRrHFVO7NeGtTKCoguSqng kH/6Mj2HOkndDydTpeZh5Zcb9JeuZHERagcD6ese71Yjihry/KTh6fNzDnYJhb/N 5vOlZZAa/8LgnLaF3IZWJJmrHqhTGlitD9AFMrFGrt420ij4GzTWsLN93Ctm7MBg sWZvuj9JL7o= =U/4B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----