article_snippet.sent: Scientists in Germany announced in December Scientists in Germany have created the first library of drunk speech patterns, which could be used to predict drunkenness by listening for vocal cues.
article_snippet.sent: Called the Alcohol Language Corpus, the database was made by researchers from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Institute of Legal Medicine between 2007 and 2009 by giving people too much alcohol to drink, before recording conversations conducted in a stopped car, where the drunk person was sitting in the passenger seat.
article_snippet.sent: There are currently conversations from 162 German men and women in the publicly-available audio database.
article_snippet.sent: From this, an algorithm capable of detecting whether someone is drunk by listening in on slurring speech patterns, was created by computer scientists at Queens College and Columbia University.
article_snippet.sent: computer scientists at Queens College and Columbia University found computer scientists at Queens College and Columbia University could detect drunken speech patterns much like identifying an accent.