From: azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear)
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 07:10:31 +0800
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Subject: Re: Voice Stress Analysis of Debates?
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> Jim Bell <jimbell@pacifier.com> wrote:
>One thing I wonder is this:  Can the stress indications be removed from a
>voice-containing signal by some sophisticated DSP processing?  Just look for
>whatever effect that indicates stress, add it in equal and negative amounts
>to eliminate the apparent stress, etc.    It might not make sense for
>anything less "critical" than debates, but if the control of the debates is
>as monopolized as we think it is, it is reasonable to think that debate
>participants would insist on a certain level of control over the audio signal.
>
>
[snip]
>But I would still be interested to get some
>kind of quantitative feedback on the debates.  If anything, the ABSENSE of
>the news media's attempting to use voice-stress analysis is telling.
>

BTW, did anyone notice that some of the evening news anchors are imaged via
a camera/DSP to render as more youthful (e.g., removing facial wrinkles)?




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