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From: M.Willis@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Mike Willis)
Subject: Re: Tomorrows World Speech Recogniser
Message-ID: <1994Apr21.105519.10042@ee.surrey.ac.uk>
Sender: ees1mw@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Mike Willis)
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK. GU2 5XH
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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 10:55:19 GMT
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In article <2p05lg$mf6@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, amh15@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alan Hart) writes:
|> Alan Messer (adm2@cs.city.ac.uk) wrote:
|> : I remember seeing on Tomorrows World (a UK science programme) in the last
|> : couple of weeks, a voice authenticator which could recognise the presenter
|> : speaking normally and with something in his mouth, but rejected him played
|> : back off of tape??
|> 
|> : Was this a late April Fool?
Hmm, well April fool jokes are invalid unless they are on 1st April, so one can
only assume it is true. I was not convinced though. I expected somone elso to come
along and still be identified as the original presenter. 

Fact remains though, I can recognise peoples voices if they have a cold, are
eating, on the phone, etc etc, so it must be possible. I don't expect anyone has
done it reliably yet, but it will happen, eventually.
