
Voice jammer stops anyone from recording you speak
July 29, 2022An artificial intelligence voice jammer can unobtrusively block microphones recording a single voice in an area, avoiding causing wider disruption that might tip people off
Technology
29 July 2022
Using artificial intelligence to produce the right pattern of sound can render a voice unrecordable Shutterstock/ArtemisDiana
A voice jammer can now stop anyone recording the speech of a single target person.
Voice jammers work much like noise-cancelling headphones, which play the precisely inverse sound to unwanted background noise, effectively squashing the waves out of existence. The jammers generally do their job of stopping electronic eavesdropping on conversations by broadcasting inverse sound waves that effect all microphones within earshot. But this can prevent phones hearing nearby people’s voices if they try to …