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Digital Voiceprinting Is Not Ready for Court
by Anthony W. Accurso
New techniques using artificial intelligence to analyze voices fall short of meeting the standard for court admissibility, but that hasn’t stopped police from coercing plea deals out of defendants while claiming the “evidence” against them is sound.
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