[67503] in Cypherpunks
Re: Voice Stress Analysis of Debates?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sandy Sandfort)
Mon Oct 7 04:03:09 1996
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 00:27:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199610060428.VAA19939@mail.pacifier.com>
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SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,
On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, jim bell wrote:
> 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.)
The original device was the PSE, the psychological stress
evaluator. It was, as still is, sold by a company called
Dektor. It is located in the DC area (Maryland?) and is run
by a group of ex-spooks. It's been around for 25 years or so.
S a n d y
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