voiceprintn.

1918 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 30 Oct. 7/2 He won't be able to use a telephone because the sleuths will be able to trace him by his voice prints on the transmitter.

1927 Titusville (Pa.) Herald 15 June 7/2 Crooks' ‘Voice-Prints’. A new phonographic device will enable the police to keep records of criminals' voices.

1968 M. Guybon tr. A. Solzhenitsyn First Circle xxxiii. 198 This was really something quite new—tracing a criminal by his voice-print.

1973 Daily Tel. 5 Apr. 15/3 A Californian appeal court has ruled after years of controversy that voiceprints are acceptable as evidence in criminal cases.

1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking iii. 344 You're recognized at any bank or ATM anywhere in the world by means of voice print, facial thermogram, or eye retina—in a wink.

2005 P. R. Keefe Chatter v. 133 Shouldn't it be possible, then, to program a machine to listen for a particular voiceprint.

1966 Economist 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’.

1979 J. Crosby Party of Year (1980) i. 13 If you'd just state your name again, for the Voice Printer.

1984 W. Gibson Neuromancer (1989) ii. vii. 88 A few letter-writers had taken refuge in doorways, their old voiceprinters wrapped in sheets of clear plastic.

1932 Brit. Patent 368,965 1 (title) Improvements in and relating to voice-printing apparatus.

1962 Nature 29 Dec. 1253/1 Voiceprinting uses the spectrographic impressions of the utterances of ten words frequently used in telephone conversations.

1978 S. Brill Teamsters iv. 144 Nine days after the voice printing Faugno disappeared.

2000 C. Gaertz Local Knowl. viii. 171 There is the technological restlessness, a sort of rage to invent, of contemporary life which brings such uncertain sciences as electronic bugging, voice printing, public opinion polling.