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ˈvoiceprint
[f. voice n. + print n., after fingerprint.]
A sonogram of a person's voice. Also attrib.
1962New Scientist 14 June 598/2 ‘Voiceprint’ identification may eventually supplement that from fingerprints. 1968M. Guybon tr. Solzhenitsyn's First Circle xxxiii. 198 This was really something quite new—tracing a criminal by his voice-print. 1973Daily Tel. 5 Apr. 15/3 A Californian appeal court has ruled after years of controversy that voiceprints are acceptable as evidence in criminal cases. 1981I. St. James Balfour Conspiracy ii. 49 The voice print library is still limited.
Hence ˈvoiceprinter, voice printer, an apparatus for producing voiceprints; ˈvoice-printing vbl. n., the production or use of voiceprints.
1962Nature 29 Dec. 1253/1 Voiceprinting uses the spectrographic impressions of the utterances of ten words frequently used in telephone conversations. 1966Economist 20 Aug. 734/2 A young Negro..has been brought to trial in Los Angeles..on evidence provided by an electronic device known as a ‘voiceprinter’. 1978S. Brill Teamsters iv. 144 Nine days after the voice printing Faugno disappeared. 1979J. Crosby Party of Year (1980) i. 13 If you'd just state your name again, for the Voice Printer. |