New documents revealed through the Snowden case report a monitoring system and sophisticated transcription of telephone conversations.
The documents in the Snowden affair Leakes regularly bring their share of more or less disturbing revelations. This time, Edward Snowden's revelations highlight a particularly powerful tool used by the NSA to transcribe telephone conversations VoiceRT text baptized.
1 million transcribed conversations per day
While for the general public, transcripts of voice solutions text are still quite improved, the documents of the case published by The Snowden Intercept reveal that such technology is used by NASA since 2006.
Any part of the project "Rinehart" launched by the NSA in 2004 and renamed "Voice RT" in 2006. The aim is to analyze telephone conversations and transcribe them into text. The tool improves over time and with Voice RT, the US security agency was able to capture and analyze up to 1 million conversations a day and that, in several languages.
Big Data Intelligence service
Since 2013, the program has grown from "Voice RT" to "Spiritfire" and analysis algorithms have further progressed, which suggests that the NSA can analyze an even greater amount of audio conversations.
According to documents, experts in Big Data are responsible for creating methods of ranking the most sensitive conversations through the use of complex list of keywords that are cut to sort. NSA's efforts would obviously concentrated on certain sensitive areas such as Afghanistan, Iraq or Latin America, but all regions of the globe are potentially affected and the NSA's powers have largely overwhelmed.
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