The American distributor, Unipress Software of Edison, N.J., is set to begin shipping.Įven so, there are skeptics. It has distribution deals in Germany, Singapore and South Africa. 15, the company says, it has sold more than 2,200 copies. Since the Truster was made available Dec. The military version will not be on the market until June, but the consumer version is a hot item. It can be used in person or over the telephone by attaching a computer to a phone receiver with a special cable. Segal said the product had myriad other applications, like pre-employment testing.
Indeed, the company created Truster for the military to use in stopping terrorists at Israeli border checkpoints. They say more formal studies are pending, including research by the Israeli military. The two men insist their computer program, which measures changes in voice frequency, is 85 percent accurate in identifying stress that is indicative of a lie. But the question is, can one trust Truster to ferret out the truth _ especially since its inventors are neophytes in the field of lie detection? Segal is a longtime software entrepreneur his partner, Amir Liberman, 25, delayed university studies to develop the program.
