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Why would you? Capture the audio, convert to text, trigger on words like "border agent", "customs", "guard", "bomb", "drugs", etc. and then have someone in the basement reviewing the conversations that trigger the alert and passing the important bits up to the guy in the booth.


"they don't like your sunglasses" is one of the important triggers?


No, but talking about the border guards could well be. Then Jim downstairs listens to the clip, gets a laugh, and ims his buddy upstairs "hey Ted, red car says your sunglasses are ugly lol".


Has anybody seen the first five minutes of Super Troopers? The kids in the car no doubt felt the cops had mind reading powers.

"you know how fast you were going?" "65?" "63." [kid freaks out]

"you feeling ok?" "yes sir" "did you say 'yes sir' or yeah sure'?" [kid freaks out]

I imagine that's how most of these stories go in real life. Cop's a bit of a jerk, victim freaks out and imagines all sorts of terrifying threats. And of course the story always gets better in the telling.


I'm pretty sure that's what happened in a nut-shell.




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