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From: flash@ee.inference.ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: long-distance monitoring
Message-ID: <447@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Apr 88 14:28:05 GMT
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Summary: Two interestin articles

In article <411@ruuinf.UUCP> piet@ruuinf.UUCP (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
>In article <48*nat@drao.nrc.cdn> nat%drao.nrc.CDN%ean.ubc.ca@BUITA.BU.EDU (Natalie Prowse) writes:
>
>   It has recently come to my attention (from a very reliable source), that
>   long-distance phone calls from Canada to the U.S. are monitored.  According
>   to my source, a U.S. agency runs several Crays which do speech recognition
>I heard rumours (or read in the paper) that Great Britain has a similar
>system for (what they call) overseas calls (nice to live on an island :-).
>Maybe this is even used for all transatlantic calls from Europe?
>-- 
>Piet van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht

References: <718@btnix.UUCP> of uk.general

In article <718@btnix.UUCP> agray@btnix.UUCP (Andy Gray) writes:
>
>The Speech and Language Processing Division at British Telecom Research
>Laboratories is currently embarking on a data collection exercise for speech.
>This involves recording certain words spoken by a range of different people.
>
>If you would like to take part in the exercise please could you ring
>                  
>                   0800 581 722
>
>and respond to the instructions.  Please note that this is a Link-Line 
>If you happen to ring from outside the UK please ring
>                    +44 473 643050
>The lines will be open for a full 24 hours on 20th April, that is, from 23.00
>GMT on 19th April (00.00 BST 20th April) to 23.00 GMT on the 20th April. 
>E-Mail (UUCP)   AGray@axion.bt.co.uk ...!ukc!axion!AGray
>Organisation	British Telecom Research Laboratories (RT3134)
>Snail Mail	BTRL, Rm G23 B68, Martlesham Heath, IPSWICH IP5 7RE, UK
>Telephone	+44 473 646647



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