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Tuesday, May 05, 2015

The Computers are Listening How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/05/nsa-speech-recognition-snowden-searchable-text/

But even as they increasingly use apps that understand what they say, most people don’t realize that the words they speak are not so private anymore, either.
Top-secret documents from the archive of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.
The documents show NSA analysts celebrating the development of what they called “Google for Voice” nearly a decade ago.

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