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by supertrope 2016 days ago
Recording all calls is well within the financial and material means of the US Government. http://blog.archive.org/2013/06/15/cost-to-store-all-us-phon...
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I agree. The convert to text part was about indexing the content of the calls for easy searching.

I bring it up because speech recognition has become so commoditized that most of us could think of a way to whip up an, albeit bad, solution to this problem using AWS/GCP/etc in a weekend.