Wednesday, September 26, 2012

You Are Being Heard As Well As Watched

This interesting piece of information regarding what might be termed “On the road to our loss of freedom.”

By JG Vibes
theintelhub.com

“Law enforcement agencies across the country are now adding massive voice databases to their surveillance grids.

“The US government is now working with a company that designs state of the art voice recognition software and plans to implement that software nationwide. The software has already been rolled out in over 70 countries and is ominously called “voice grid nation“.

“It takes just five seconds to scan through 10,000 voices and can conduct up to 100 searches at the same time.


“It is also uses an algorithm that automatically compares “voice models against voice recording obtained from different sources such as cell phones, land lines, covert recordings and recorded investigative interviews.”


“Although this software has been distributed worldwide the company that produces it is actually based out of Russia.  In Russia they operate under the name of Speech Technology Center while in the US they are called SpeechPro.


“According to the
SpeechPro whitepaper published in 2011, the company had a “commitment from a State Justice Agency to deploy a pilot system for the purposes of performance studies and further development of best practices for obtaining voice samples in a booking environment”.

“In fact both 
the NSA and the FBI have expressed interest in implementing this technology so it is likely that this has been in the works with multiple agencies for a long time.

“The president of SpeechPro 
Alexey Khitrov has been assuring the press that this software will be “used for only very noble causes” and that “we work with trusted law enforcement agencies and try to make sure that they use it properly.”

“These “trusted law enforcement agencies” sound fascinating, I’d really like to hear more about them and where they exist, but I’m sure that one would be difficult to find the 70 some countries that currently use this software.”


J.G. Vibes
 is the author of an 87 chapter counter culture textbook called Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance and host of a show called Voluntary Hippie Radio.
He is also an artist with an established record label and event promotion company that hosts politically charged electronic dance music events. You can keep up with his work, which includes free podcasts, free e-books & free audiobooks at his website www.aotmr.com .

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