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Something about my voice seems to be unrecognizable by most of the voice recognition, or at least the phone tree versions of it.
Please just let me punch a damn button on the phone the first time and not have to try to say yes in a way you actually understand fifteen different times before you say allow me to press one for yes. Of course getting frustrated and gritting my teeth while I grunt at the phone after the 4th failed attempt makes me so much easier to understand.
Unfortunately we decide that people can listen and make a decision about who it is, even if they aren't falsifiable and prone to bias testify as to who they think a voice that no science can distinguish.
Now I know some things humans are better at than machines (why we use human noses in blind smelling tests and not just machine sniffers) but at least in science we blind the person doing the smelling becasue we know that if they think something is a particular something that will change their answer as well as if they think the researcher wants to hear that the something is a particular something that will also change their answer.
But that is my whole we assume humans on the stand have perfect recall and no biases and their testimony is the absolute truth. With science at least we can quantify most of the biases and uncertainties, or at least document the settings and show how they repeatably effect the results.
I'd really love to see them do a sound booth randomization of 6 different people recorded under similar conditions screaming the same thing and see who picks out the actual 911 call as the person they said it was when they just have one recording to listen to. But then I think we often rely more than we should on the memories of eye/ear witnesses.
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