Re: GSM crypto upgrade? (was Re: Newt's phone calls) (fwd)

[Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>]

Forwarded message:

> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:29:05 -0800
> From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
> Subject: Re: GSM crypto upgrade? (was Re: Newt's phone calls)
> 
> followed up, but it seems entirely reasonable a practicle.  In fact I'm
> surprised that Hollywood hasn't latched onto this in order to dub film
> stars to different languages w/o loosing their recognizable voice
> characteristics.

In this regards you people (en toto) need to do a little more real world
research in this area. Voice recognition is and has been easy to do for
decades. As to what Hollywood is doing, not only are they doing voice
masking but your local radio station does it on a regular basis [1] for a
few $1,000's in hardware and software.


[1] Video Toaster User
    Dec. 1996
    Toaster Talk - "Learning from radio"
    pp. 6


                                               Jim Choate
                                               CyberTects
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