Dna samples of world leaders

[Sunder]

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. :)


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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Bill Stewart wrote:

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