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Technology that Identifies People by the Sound of Their Voices

SUMMARY

Voice matching technology developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology helped the FBI confirm that an individual the bureau had interrogated in Iraq was not a particular terrorist. Voice matching was also used to identify Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, and Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri across recordings. It was also applied in an “insider threat” effort to identify potential NSA leakers.

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Jan 04, 2006

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

Aug 15, 2018

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Iraq