Japan invents speech-jamming gun that silences people mid-sentence

MyFox Orlando ^ | 02 March 2012

[jda]

TOKYO (Newscore) - Japanese researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people into silence.

Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University, developed a portable "SpeechJammer" gun that can silence people more than 30 meters away.

The device works by recording its target's speech then firing their words back at them with a 0.2-second delay, which affects the brain's cognitive processes and causes speakers to stutter before silencing them completely.

Describing the device in their research paper, Kurihara and Tsukada wrote, "In general, human speech is jammed by giving back to the speakers their own utterances at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds. This effect can disturb people without any physical discomfort, and disappears immediately by stopping speaking."

They found that the device works better on people who were reading aloud than engaged in "spontaneous speech" and it cannot stop people making meaningless sounds, such as "ahhh," that are uttered over a long time period.

Kurihara and Tsukada suggested the speech-jamming gun could be used to hush noisy speakers in public libraries or to silence people in group discussions who interrupt other people's speeches.

"There are still many cases in which the negative aspects of speech become a barrier to the peaceful resolution of conflicts," the authors said.

[jda]

... painlessly forces people into silence.

Think of the possibilities:

- Obama speeches and rants

They found that the device works better on people who were reading aloud than engaged in "spontaneous speech" {emphasis added}

Like I said, Obama (teleprompter-assisted) speeches and other rants (but I repeat myself).

[Lonely Bull]

Think of the possibilities:

But "it cannot stop people making meaningless sounds."

[muir_redwoods]

I married one of those

[jda]

I married one of those

Let me guess - your's only works on one person, huh?

I'm still laughing!

[Telepathic Intruder]

All you need to do in Obama’s case is turn off his teleprompter. The equivalent of “Shut up, Stella”.

[meyer]

I could definitely put this to work on the job. We’ve got a couple of “know-it-alls” that cannot refrain from interjecting their “expert” opinion into everybody’s conversations.

[Ken H]

I say this is bullshi

[csense]

...it cannot stop people making meaningless sounds...

So I guess that means it doesn't work on politicians. Just our luck..

[mazda77]

Hannity needs one for those idiots he seems to attract to calling his show. I GOT IT! Give one to anyone who appears on BOR! His rating would go even higher and the guest would finally get to answer his questions.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Japan invents speech-jamming gun that silences people mid-sentence

Those Japanese copy everything. Smith and Wesson developed a product many years ago that will do the same thing.

[Larry Lucido]

Radio broadcaster headphones do the same thing. Doesn’t shut them up.

[Larry Lucido]

This works too.

[wiggen]

“The device works by recording its target’s speech then firing their words back at them with a 0.2-second delay, which affects the brain’s cognitive processes and causes speakers to stutter before silencing them completely. “

Affect the cognitive process and its harmless? I bet they run a few tests and they’ll find harm.

[TalBlack]

“The device works by recording its target’s speech then firing their words back at them with a 0.2-second delay, which affects the brain’s cognitive processes and causes speakers to stutter before silencing them completely.”

This will only work for a short while if the subject doesn’t expect it. Put on a pair of head phones, jack up the volume, set a dely unit for .02 and talk.

“There are still many cases in which the negative aspects of speech become a barrier to the peaceful resolution of conflicts,” the authors said.”

This guy sounds like a textbook tyrant.

[Vermont Lt]

Memo to self: when rioting in Japan, remember to read our chants...and wear ear plugs.

I hope they don’t spend too much on this.

[maddog55]

Take away Obama’s teleprompter and we have the same weapon.

[count-your-change]

Two of the researchers got into a shootout with the guns. They haven't spoken to each other for weeks.

[lowbridge]

Just wait until the liberals get their hands on this weapon.

[jmcenanly]

Hannity needs one for those idiots he seems to attract to calling his show.
Simply feeding back the incoming phone call would have the same effect.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Radio broadcaster headphones do the same thing. Doesn’t shut them up.

A friend of mine was fooling with his new (back in the 1960s) hi fi, and stumbled onto this when recording his own voice and listening to the reproduction of it with a delay due to the distance between the record and reproduce heads of the tape recorder. He used earphones - and we all tried it and had a good laugh. Still remember him saying, “I . . . caaan’t . . . taaallk . . . en . . ey . . . faaas . . . terrr!

LOL!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“The device works by recording its target’s speech then firing their words back at them with a 0.2-second delay, which affects the brain’s cognitive processes and causes speakers to stutter before silencing them completely. “

Affect the cognitive process and its harmless? I bet they run a few tests and they’ll find harm.

Nah, it just causes momentary confusion is all. It just demonstrated to me (see my #20) that when we speak, we unconsciously listen to ourselves and correct the way we sound in a feedback loop so that we sound “right” to ourselves.

Who hasn’t tried to sound like someone else? When you do that, you obviously are listening to yourself and trying to adjust the way you sound, just as I described above. When you hear your voice delayed, if you pay attention to it you can’t help trying to adjust sound that is old and past any possibility of being adjusted.

A harmless parlor trick.

[Jack Hydrazine]

This device reminds me of Dr. Evil telling Scotty to zip it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32C0eKRQVt8

[SharpRightTurn]

The ultimate test will be to see if it works on Hilary Clinton.

[aruanan]

The device works by recording its target's speech then firing their words back at them with a 0.2-second delay, which affects the brain's cognitive processes and causes speakers to stutter before silencing them completely.

Apparently the prototype was being tried out on Obama, though it never silenced him completely.

[BTCM]

Yeah, I was getting ready to put one on my pay pal account for “the annointed one”.

[aruanan]

"There are still many cases in which the negative aspects of speech become a barrier to the peaceful resolution of conflicts," the authors said.

Yeah, like criticism by conservatives of Obama's usurpation of the Constitution. If only they would shut up (or could be shut up) and let Der Plan of Presidente Orejon proceed to its final, peaceful resolution and the end of conflict.

[McBuff]

COFFEE SPEW!!!

[Rapscallion]

Those Japanese copy everything. Smith and Wesson developed a product many years ago that will do the same thing.

Now THAT is really funny. Thank you.

[Da Coyote]

This was one of my favorite party tricks years ago using a reel-to-reel tape recorder with separate record/playback heads. Those units could be switched so that one heard the recorded voice approx .2 sec after one spoke.

The setup, we just handed the target a mic and asked them to put on headphones...then just asked them to talk.

Hilarious.

But not exactly new.

And so disjointed, they sounded like a liberal

[DUMBGRUNT]

Do they have a his and hers versions available?

[Sirius Lee]

There are still many cases in which the negative aspects of speech become a barrier to the peaceful resolution of conflicts,"

It won't be available for The People to use against politicians and bee esss pukers in the MSM. These things are only created to be used against the citizenry.

Naturally, the U.S. will be buying these in case the Tea Partiers show up again this year.

You'd have to be an idiot to ignore all the little pieces of the totalitarion machine being assembled around us - the militarization of the police, surveillance drones over U.S. populations, federal raids on farmers for growing non GMO crops and milk, urban combat training in U.S. style gun confiscation scenarios, microwave active denial tech, the media push for RFIDs, preferential treatment for illegals and violent criminals but draconian jackbooted measures against the middleclass for things like putting soil on their own lawns...

We're effed.

And the GOPe is complicit with the dems in destroying America.

[goat granny]

LOL I love freepers sense of humor on life...

[DTogo]

Interesting that this would be invented in a country where people avoid saying what they really think, and don't often engage in verbal arguments.

日本　ピング　 (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)

[Fire_on_High]

It’s a distraction, nothing more. Ever tried to talk when being drowned out by a blaring alarm of some sort, or having to shout over some chucklehead who won’t stop babbling? Only the babbler and noise is now you, with this device.

[RobinOfKingston]

"There are still many cases in which the negative aspects of speech become a barrier to the peaceful resolution of conflicts," the authors said.

Who's to decide just what "negative aspects" that "become a barrier" are? Do all interlocutors get a device? Will each one come with a government employee attached?

We have gotten to the point where many aspects of technology are a hindrance, rather than a help.