All phone calls and text messages in Russia must be recorded and stored for at least 6 months according to the law. Also, about 1 month worth of Internet traffic is also recorded.
I've always wondered how good nation states are at converting the speech to text. In my experience working with stuff like Twilio it can be a challenge to do it at scale when trying to identify individual speakers then generating a screenplay like output.
Text to speech doesn’t have any mechanism for “recording” the tone of the speaker. Something that will be perfectly “acceptable” in a transcript can be said in such a way that it’s meaning to the listener is the complete opposite of it’s meaning to the reader.
Which is fine for NSA/FSB purposes; the text to speech reduces the absolute flood of calls to the trickle that they may want to pay attention to ... ah who am I kidding, they'll sit on some drive somewhere and never be paid attention to, just like all the 9/11 warnings.
