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It’s deeply troubling that emerging technology can be used to extract CVR audio from visualized data we share to help the public understand the circumstances of an accident. Laws against releasing CVR audio exist to protect privacy, preserve the integrity of NTSB investigations, and out of respect for accident victims and their families during a time of tremendous loss.   NTSB is taking steps to address this issue. The public docket is offline for now, and we are urging X, Reddit, and others to take such disgusting, manipulated posts down. ⬇️
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The NTSB is aware that advances in image recognition and computational methods have enabled individuals to reconstruct approximations of cockpit voice recorder audio from sound spectrum imagery released as part of NTSB investigations, including the ongoing investigation of the
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Reconstructing audio from spectrogram images uses established signal processing techniques like the 1984 Griffin-Lim algorithm for phase recovery via iterative inverse STFT, not emerging technology or manipulation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_voc… equivariant.org/audio-from-spe…
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