Voice Stress Analysis of Debates?

[jim bell]

At 04:01 PM 10/5/96 -0400, John Young wrote:
>URL in The Economist, October 5, 1996, p. 46.
>http://www.cmiatl.com/
>         Crisis Management International, Inc.
>CMI provides crisis management services relating to "hot"
>threats of violence, workplace violence prevention, and
>post-incident crisis intervention. In addition, CMI provides
>threat of violence and crisis response training,
>psych-claims management assistance, and SCAN analysis, which
>is a deception detection technique.

This reminds me...   Years ago, somebody developed a technique called "Voice 
Stress Analysis," which was supposed to detect small variations in a 
person's voice in response to stress.  Not exactly a lie-detector, but it 
was supposed to do nearly the same thing.   Does anybody plan to analyze the 
debates for stress?  Is there software to do this?  (Tried to do a 
web-search; didn't see anything.)


Jim Bell
jimbell at pacifier.com