IP: "Science be damned" -- manufacturers push voice stress analyzers to detect terrorists, others

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Police want to know if a suspect is 
lying, but the polygraph test comes back inconclusive.

What's an exasperated interrogator to do?

Increasingly, law enforcement agencies are using a technology that measures 
"voice stress" -- small frequency modulations in the human voice that 
supposedly occur whenever someone is lying.



> http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/02/10/voice.stress.ap/index.html

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