Telephone Voice Changers/Disguisers?

Factual Questions
1

I read a supposedly factual account on a Angelfire page awhile back about a California woman who met a East Coast guy online and fell in love with him…

After about a year of online romantic mush, they progressed to talking on the phone for another year. Then they were supposedly to finally meet in person, but the guy was a no show, and when the woman tried to contact him, he had disappeared. After some amateur detective work, the woman finally found out that the guy was actually a woman and had been using a voice changer/disguiser during their numerous phone calls.

The question is: do these devices actually work so well that a person would be consistently fooled over the course of a year?

One five minute phone call is believable, but wouldn’t there be enough anomilies and flaws in the masking process that would be evident through the course of hours of discussion?

2

>but wouldn’t there be enough anomilies and flaws in the >masking process that would be evident through the course of >hours of discussion?

One sentence would probably suffice. Hours of discussions are implausible.

3

There are some very good electronic voice disguisers out there that would fool most people, especially if you weren’t expecting a trap. I believe that Phil Hedrie, the radio DJ prankster, uses them and fools many, many unsuspecting listeners.

Haj

4

I just find it incredibly absurd that a woman could disguise her voice as a man’s and go undetected for an entire year.

I’m sure a expert sound engineer could do something like that, but a consumer gadget?