This morning I got up early, checked my email, and had a bit of breakfast. I then went back to bed, expecting to reawake in time to see Biden’s inauguration. I evidently overslept it by about an hour and was only able to catch re-broadcasted snippets of the swearing-in ceremony and his address of banal bromides on unity, unity, unity.
The CIA has long had a device called the Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE) which measures the human voice to determine if a person is lying. It is very different than the conventional polygraph or lie detector which measures and records several physiological indicators such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity while a person is asked and answers a series of questions. The PSE is a form of Voice stress analysis (VSA) and computer voice stress analysis (CVSA) which are collectively a technology that aims to infer deception from stress measured in the voice. The CVSA records the human voice using a microphone, and the technolo