Friday, September 16, 2005

Who's Listening To You Type?

The Mercury News Posted on Fri, Sep. 16, 2005:

AUDIO RECORDINGS OF KEYSTROKES YIELD TRANSCRIPT OF USER'S INPUT

Li Zhuang, a graduate student in computer science at the University of California-Berkeley, came up with the idea of making audio recordings of keyboard strokes to see if words and phrases could be deciphered accurately.

Using a cheap microphone plugged into a laptop running generic speech recognition and spell-check software, Zhuang and her teammates were able to associate the sound of individual keys on a keyboard with specific letters and thus figure out what was being written with 96 percent accuracy.

Read more of Karl Schoenberger's report....

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