Der Linguist
Der Linguist is a
forensic linguist and intelligence analyst who has mastered 18 foreign languages to native
proficiency and speaks multiple dialects of each. He is the world's leading forensic language C.S.I (Crime Scene Investigator).
The Mission: Der Linguist and his team of linguistic C.S.I.s, provide linguistic forensic support to law enforcement and government agencies to help identify, locate, and convict criminals. For their own security their identity is never reveled. Contact can only be made through the world wide web by clicking the Encrypted Rhyme.
Background: Der Linguist started his professional career as a German, Russian, and Czech linguist with the Army Security Agency and then went on to work for the National Security Agency. He and his team are supported by a private, not for profit, foundation that has no ties to any government. Der Linguist and his team have built an artificially intelligent linguistic and voice analysis system known as ELIAS (Enhanced Linguistic Intelligence and Analysis System). ELIAS contains speech patterns, dialects, and language syntax tags for every city and region in Western and Eastern Europe as well as Japan. ELIAS has the ability to analyze a voice sample and identify the speaker's city of birth, current city of residence, educ
ation level, mood, psychological state, truthfulness, and often the actual individual.
The Mission: Der Linguist and his team of linguistic C.S.I.s, provide linguistic forensic support to law enforcement and government agencies to help identify, locate, and convict criminals. For their own security their identity is never reveled. Contact can only be made through the world wide web by clicking the Encrypted Rhyme.
Background: Der Linguist started his professional career as a German, Russian, and Czech linguist with the Army Security Agency and then went on to work for the National Security Agency. He and his team are supported by a private, not for profit, foundation that has no ties to any government. Der Linguist and his team have built an artificially intelligent linguistic and voice analysis system known as ELIAS (Enhanced Linguistic Intelligence and Analysis System). ELIAS contains speech patterns, dialects, and language syntax tags for every city and region in Western and Eastern Europe as well as Japan. ELIAS has the ability to analyze a voice sample and identify the speaker's city of birth, current city of residence, educ
ation level, mood, psychological state, truthfulness, and often the actual individual. Hast du das Zeug dazu? Do you have what it takes to be
a linguistic C.S.I? To check out the current case - click on the file:
a linguistic C.S.I? To check out the current case - click on the file:
By the time you are 18 years old, you have developed a unique voice print that is as identifiable to Der Linguist as your finger prints are to the Crime Lab.
ELIAS (Enhanced Linguistic Intelligence and Analysis System)
Beginnings
ELIAS, an artificially intelligent voice print and linguistic library got its start when Der Linguist was in seventh grade. His grandparents had friends in South Africa who wanted to give their son an international living experience. They arranged to have their son live with Der Linguist's family for a year. Der Linguist became fascinated by the fact that both he and his South Africa friend spoke English, but not the same English. The South African's pronunciation of words was different and he used different words to refer to the same thing. This new perspective of dialectic and regional language differences in the same language, intrigued Der Linguist. He decided to structure his 7th grade science fair project around the dialectic differences in the English language. In addition to the obvious differences in the English between South Africa and the United States, he documented dialectic differences in the Boston area where we lived.
Der Linguist graduated from High School speaking German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Hebrew with native fluency. Though he had been accepted at Middlebury College to study Russian and other Eastern European languages, the selective service lottery made it clear that he was headed for the military. Given the inevitable, he enlisted in the US Army to become a Russian linguist. This started his path to the Defense Language Institute and on to Berlin with the Army Security Agency where he served as a Russian, Czech, and German linguist with a psychological warfare team targeted against Group Soviet Forces Europe and the secret police of East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.
While stationed in Germany, he continued his hobby of recording phrases and words of native speakers in different cities and regions. During this time he was able to make city and regional language recordings in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Spain, and Norway. After the wall came down, he continued the collection of recordings in an additional 21 countries. In total ELIAS now contains sample recordings of native speakers from 2,500 cities and towns in 30 Western and Eastern European countries. After mastering Japanese, Japanese recordings from 92 Japanese cities and towns were also added.
Building a Computer Based System
With the advent of high speed computer processors and inexpensive RAM, Der Linguist teamed with a talented group of computer programmers and language analysts to digitize the tapes and build a computer based language / speech pattern data base and voice analysis tool.
Today, ELIAS is a high speed computer based analysis tool employing sophisticated algorithms and optimization branching techniques to listen to a recorded message and then map the dialectic inflections, intonations, vocabulary, and speech patterns to a town, an educational level, an approximate age, an emotional state, and psychological state of the speaker.
In exchange for providing the U.S. National Security Agency with a complete copy of ELIAS, Der Linguist and his team were given the NSA's collection of specific voice prints that were collected over the past 40 years from foreign nationals who had served in the military and/or secret police organizations in the former Soviet Block countries. Der Linguist and his team were also given individual voice prints of criminals and 'person's of interest' that were recorded by the police/intelligence agencies of 20 other foreign governments. Through such cooperation, ELIAS now contains specific voice prints of 8.6 million individuals who are of European, North American, South American, or Japanese origin.
ELIAS, an artificially intelligent voice print and linguistic library got its start when Der Linguist was in seventh grade. His grandparents had friends in South Africa who wanted to give their son an international living experience. They arranged to have their son live with Der Linguist's family for a year. Der Linguist became fascinated by the fact that both he and his South Africa friend spoke English, but not the same English. The South African's pronunciation of words was different and he used different words to refer to the same thing. This new perspective of dialectic and regional language differences in the same language, intrigued Der Linguist. He decided to structure his 7th grade science fair project around the dialectic differences in the English language. In addition to the obvious differences in the English between South Africa and the United States, he documented dialectic differences in the Boston area where we lived.
Der Linguist graduated from High School speaking German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Hebrew with native fluency. Though he had been accepted at Middlebury College to study Russian and other Eastern European languages, the selective service lottery made it clear that he was headed for the military. Given the inevitable, he enlisted in the US Army to become a Russian linguist. This started his path to the Defense Language Institute and on to Berlin with the Army Security Agency where he served as a Russian, Czech, and German linguist with a psychological warfare team targeted against Group Soviet Forces Europe and the secret police of East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.
While stationed in Germany, he continued his hobby of recording phrases and words of native speakers in different cities and regions. During this time he was able to make city and regional language recordings in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Spain, and Norway. After the wall came down, he continued the collection of recordings in an additional 21 countries. In total ELIAS now contains sample recordings of native speakers from 2,500 cities and towns in 30 Western and Eastern European countries. After mastering Japanese, Japanese recordings from 92 Japanese cities and towns were also added.
Building a Computer Based System
With the advent of high speed computer processors and inexpensive RAM, Der Linguist teamed with a talented group of computer programmers and language analysts to digitize the tapes and build a computer based language / speech pattern data base and voice analysis tool.
Today, ELIAS is a high speed computer based analysis tool employing sophisticated algorithms and optimization branching techniques to listen to a recorded message and then map the dialectic inflections, intonations, vocabulary, and speech patterns to a town, an educational level, an approximate age, an emotional state, and psychological state of the speaker.
In exchange for providing the U.S. National Security Agency with a complete copy of ELIAS, Der Linguist and his team were given the NSA's collection of specific voice prints that were collected over the past 40 years from foreign nationals who had served in the military and/or secret police organizations in the former Soviet Block countries. Der Linguist and his team were also given individual voice prints of criminals and 'person's of interest' that were recorded by the police/intelligence agencies of 20 other foreign governments. Through such cooperation, ELIAS now contains specific voice prints of 8.6 million individuals who are of European, North American, South American, or Japanese origin.
