Casper Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/public-bus-audio-surveillance/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 One microphone is not going to hear all passenger's conversations. Think of it this way, sitting in a bus, can you hear and understand every conversation? no. Only the loudest sounds.The microphones are used to provide audio of things like tire screeches, horns and other crash-related audio that helps in determining fault etc. also, the microphone will be installed near the driver to catch any interaction he has with criminals/robbers/unruly passengers etc.They've had microphones on bus camera systems for ever... How many of those conversations can you make out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magley64 Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 public bus = in public...anyone can already record whatever they want in public. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 (edited) Wiretap laws aside, the article is jumping to a conclusion that is not supported by the technology. In order to record all the passenger conversations you'd need one VERY discriminating microphone in front of the mouths of every conversation participant. Show me a bus with 50 hidden microphones, and then I'll worry. Edited December 12, 2012 by Scruit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitani Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 Wiretap laws aside, the article is jumping to a conclusion that is not supported by the technology. In order to record all the passenger conversations you'd need one VERY discriminating microphone in front of the mouths of every conversation participant. Show me a bus with 50 hidden microphones, and then I'll worry.I doubt voice recognition technology wouldn't be able to sort individual voices, but like said before, I would say it's more for the driver's sake than anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 I doubt voice recognition technology wouldn't be able to sort individual voices, but like said before, I would say it's more for the driver's sake than anything else.There's a reason CAPCHA works so well. Heck, current voice recognition can't even reliably understand a single person, never mind multiple simultaneous conversations.Add to that accents, languages, slang, body language and other nonverbal communication... Nope, not worried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gixxus Christ! Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 Who cares what poor people talk about anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruit Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 Who cares what poor people talk about anyway?Not a very good signal-to-noise ratio, in terms of conversation that the Govt would care about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gixxus Christ! Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 "man, you seen ray-ray? Dude owe me fie dolla! Imma take the 21 cross town to his sister house, see where dat muh fucka at!" Valuable intelligence for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swingset Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 Who cares what poor people talk about anyway?The microphones will capture the silent mutters of people wondering where the pee smell comes from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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