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Re: Voice Stress Analysis of Debates?
> Jim Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
>One thing I wonder is this: Can the stress indications be removed from a
>voice-containing signal by some sophisticated DSP processing? Just look for
>whatever effect that indicates stress, add it in equal and negative amounts
>to eliminate the apparent stress, etc. It might not make sense for
>anything less "critical" than debates, but if the control of the debates is
>as monopolized as we think it is, it is reasonable to think that debate
>participants would insist on a certain level of control over the audio signal.
>
>
[snip]
>But I would still be interested to get some
>kind of quantitative feedback on the debates. If anything, the ABSENSE of
>the news media's attempting to use voice-stress analysis is telling.
>
BTW, did anyone notice that some of the evening news anchors are imaged via
a camera/DSP to render as more youthful (e.g., removing facial wrinkles)?
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