Skype offers telephone-based lie detector
320,000 have already downloaded the free application; system is first VoIP adaptation of a technology well known to law enforcement; philanderers quake in their boots
Here at the Daily Wire, we rely on VOIP for all of our telecommunications needs. We also spend a lot of time sifting through press releases and talking with press agents from homeland security companies, all of whom seek to convince us — often hyperbolically — that their technology is the most efficient, the cheapest, or the coolest. Is it any wonder we find the new lie detector application for Skype so interesting? And is it any more of a surprise that 320,000 others are already using it?
Available as a free download, the lie detector takes advantage of something scientists have known for years: the human voice increases in pitch when a person is lying. Police have used technology based on this for some time now, but the Skype application is the first for the consumer VoIP market. The software — developed by Kishkish — measures stress levels and uses a green light to indicate honesty and a red light to suggest lying. On their Web site, the developers provide a clip of Bill Clinton’s denial about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” Not surprisingly, the light goes red.
-read more in Nick McDermott’s Daily Mail report
