{"id":77151,"date":"2018-03-23T23:42:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T06:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/pentagon-tries-to-replicate-human-voices-using-lasers"},"modified":"2018-03-23T23:42:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T06:42:42","slug":"pentagon-tries-to-replicate-human-voices-using-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/pentagon-tries-to-replicate-human-voices-using-lasers","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Tries to Replicate Human Voices Using Lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XPU6ZL8kvhA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Considering how often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outerplaces.com\/science\/item\/17411-nasa-purple-laser\">lasers show up in science fiction<\/a>, it\u2019s interesting that the concept of \u201ctalking lasers\u201d might show up in reality before eventually finding their way into sci-fi.<\/p>\n<p>But the United States\u2019 military <a href=\"http:\/\/jnlwp.defense.gov\/\">Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program<\/a> (JNLWP) is getting close to creating one, according to a new report in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2018\/03\/us-military-making-lasers-create-voices-out-thin-air\/146824\/\">Defense One<\/a>. The device in question will soon be capable of reproducing human speech as a means of scaring off trespassers or enemies, making announcements, or just sending discrete messages to somebody who dropped their phone or walkie talkie.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not <em>quite<\/em> there yet, because while it does sound like a garbled human speaking, it still speaks only gibberish for now. See it below, but don\u2019t turn up your headphones <em>too<\/em> loud, for reasons that will immediately become clear \u2014 like many people who speak gibberish, the laser speaks loudly:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outerplaces.com\/science\/item\/18095-pentagon-lasers-human-voices-AMPED\">https:\/\/www.outerplaces.com\/science\/item\/18095-pentagon-lase...ices-AMPED<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering how often lasers show up in science fiction, it\u2019s interesting that the concept of \u201ctalking lasers\u201d might show up in reality before eventually finding their way into sci-fi. But the United States\u2019 military Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program (JNLWP) is getting close to creating one, according to a new report in Defense One. The device [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}