Re: Voice Stress Analysis of Debates?

[Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.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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