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This 2006 from the NSA internal newsletter SIDToday gives an account of the CounterTerrorism Innovation Center which, among other projects, was working on the agency’s voice recognition system VoiceRT: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.
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How Is Human Language Technology Progressing?
This article from the NSA internal newsletter SIDToday discusses the progress of the agency’s voice recognition efforts, particularly in Spanish and the languages spoken in Afghanistan: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.
Come to SIDs Identity Intelligence (I2) Day Conference and See Your Target in a Whole New Light!
This 2010 article from the NSA internal newsletter SIDToday advertises a conference on Identity Intelligence (I2), “the ability to extract identity attributes of foreign persons-of-interest from databases across the United States Government”: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.
Voice/Fax User Group Minutes of October 2008 meeting
These GCHQ minutes from October 2008 describes how the agency and its partners can re-use voice recognition data in different situations: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.
SIGINTers Use Human Language Technology to Great Advantage, Isolate Conversation About Threat to US
This September 2010 article from the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday recounts how voice recognition technology enabled analysts to find the salient record from over 1300 voice conversations in “less than four minutes”:
see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.
Alvin, Simon, and… Al Qaeda? Finding Modified Voice in SIGINT Traffic
This February 2010 post from the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday draws attention to voice-masking technology used by subjects of surveillance to frustrate the agency’s voice-recognition efforts: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.
Alert: Voice Masking Is Discovered in SIGIN
This March 2007 post from the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday draws attention to voice-masking technology used by subjects of surveillance to frustrate the agency’s voice-recognition efforts: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.
New RT-RG Overview Video Available on NSANet
This 2008 article from the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday announces that voice-recognition functionality now exists to “find new voice cuts for a target that match the target’s past recordings”: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.
NSA Georgia Opens New Audio-Forensics Lab
This 22 February 2007 article from the NSA internal newsletter SIDToday announces a new audio-forensic lab to assist with the automatic analysis of voice intercept: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.
Tips for a Successful Quick Reaction Capabiity
This 26 October 2007 article in the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday describes the agency’s special collection for then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s New York City trip for the United Nations General Assembly and provides a detailed study of the technology in action: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.