Yes, brain fart. :) s/b Emmanuel Goldstein. Doh! Need more coffee... Yup, but you don't have to splice a tape, you can do it all digitally these days, then create a signle low quality audiotape recorded so poorly that your analyst won't be able to acurately say yes or not. The real question is whether or not you can have a speech synth that can put out convincing inflections, pauses, um's ah's, coughs, etc. to the point that it sounds like a human with emotions, not a machine. You can get the samples from existing speeches/addresses and extract just the phonemes. Your speech synth's output shouldn't sound like a bunch of clips of words of course. :) I don't know how many phonemes would be required for a convinging Iraqi leader... For English there's like 30 something... If you get them all at the same tone from the same speech, you're set. If you've ever played with MacOS's speech synth, they have some that are somewhat realistic human voices, but they still speak with out human sounding rythms - rather they sound like a human trying to imitate a computer a la old Star Trek episodes. Add the inflections to get emotion like sounds, and increase the quality of the synth so you don't hear machine artifacts, and you're set. It's not an easy problem, but neither is it impossible. As to DNA: Uh, I was talking about Sadam's palaces - lots of skin flakes, clothes, hairs in combs, etc to be had there. Ok, well that presumes that sufficient samples were collected before the nice palace parties. :) ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ <--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD. \|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Bill Stewart wrote:

At 12:42 PM 07/23/2003 -0400, Sunder wrote:

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Bah! Saddam has become the new Eric Goldstien since Osama Bin Ladin is quieter.

I'm guessing you're mixing up Emmanuel Goldstein, from 1984 and Eric Corley aka Emmanuel Goldstein, from 2600 ?

It might be hard to splice together a tape that would fool a forensic expert into thinking the tape was really an authentic recording by the same person who was speaking on several other known-to-be-authentic recordings. It's not at all hard to put together a press release from an ostensible forensic expert claiming that a tape is or isn't authentic, or even to find an expert who'll say it. It's probably not too hard to put together a tape with the speech you want and a set of claimed-to-be-known-authentic samples that the expert can compare with the voice on the tape, if the expert doesn't have good independent samples of his own.

After all, your objective isn't to fool the experts - it's to fool the public, or rather to make sure that the public that you've already fooled continues to stay fooled. As Bush said, "fool me once, shame on... shame on.. "

Besides, to get the DNA samples, they just checked with Illuminati Headquarters - you thought that when world leaders sign their employment contracts in blood, it's only for decoration?