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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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Chad Hagen In December 2020, a fishy distress call from a boat off the coast of Maine opened up an investigation into its authenticity—an investigation that played into the resurgence of something called “voiceprinting.” So even in the future, try not to misplace a security key. Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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According to a 2022 paper , there have been more than 740 judgements in Chinese courts involving voiceprints. Looking deeply into the human voice Chad Hagen Singh suggests that speech analysis alone can be used to generate a shockingly detailed profile of an unknown speaker. “If

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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And the way that we do this is we train a deep learning algorithm on language itself, and we can train these deep learning algorithms on many different kinds of languages so we can find information about this particular disease in French, German, English, Chinese, Japanese, all at the same time. Our theme music is by Chad Crouch.