When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing

[JoshLowry]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin020199.htm


"Gentlemen! We have called you together to inform you that we are
going to overthrow the United States government." So begins a statement
being delivered by Gen. Carl W. Steiner, former Commander-in-chief, U.S.
Special Operations Command.

At least the voice sounds amazingly like him.

But it is not Steiner. It is the result of voice "morphing" technology developed at
the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

By taking just a 10-minute digital recording of Steiner's voice, scientist George
Papcun is able, in near real time, to clone speech patterns and develop an
accurate facsimile. Steiner was so impressed, he asked for a copy of the tape.

Steiner was hardly the first or last victim to be spoofed by Papcun's team
members. To refine their method, they took various high quality recordings of
generals and experimented with creating fake statements. One of the most
memorable is Colin Powell stating "I am being treated well by my captors."

[RickyJ]

I sure hope they haven't perfected this yet. They could make Ahmadinejad say anything they want him to say. Their tapes of Osama show they have a long way to go to make video believable. :D

[tropicangela]

One of those truther movies refers to this. I think it was Loose Change. Says one of the ppl on the planes could have called his mom or something before it went down, but it wasn't him.

They could have done it with Osama too, yep.