[ag2000jon]

the caller used a voice-distortion device and was very difficult to understand.


I was shopping this weekend and stopped by a "discovery channel" store and picked up a "voice-distortion' device that they had on sale. On the box it said that with todays technology it was possible to get a voice ID even with a distortion device. I don't know if this is true or not, does anyone know??

[Quicksilver]

By no means am I an expert. It seems to me that if the voice is digitally altered, it would be possible to digitally undo the effect. Adding random noise to the distortion might make it at least difficult, if not impossible, to determine the original voice. The companies that make the distortion devices probably also sell the decoders to the Feds... who knows?

[Demidog]

On the box it said that with todays technology it was possible to get a voice ID even with a distortion device.

How do you ID somebody via voice if you haven't got a previous copy?