It's a girl! Experts say Manti Te'o hoax voice is female
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 05:00 GMT, 25 January 2013 | UPDATED: 15:49 GMT, 26 January 2013
Manti Te’o hoaxer Ronaiah Tuiasosopo didn’t fake the voice of the Notre Dame grid star’s make-believe girlfriend, experts said yesterday.
'These are definitely women,' said Paul Ginsberg, one of four audio experts asked by 'Good Morning America' to review phone messages Te’o has said are from fake girlfriend 'Lennay Kekua.'
'It’s the frequency range; it’s the intonation,' said Ginsberg, who agreed with colleagues that the voice on the tapes was female. 'I don’t believe that a male could simulate that.'
Scroll down to listen to the voicemails from 'Lennay Kekua'
[...] [ "College football eyes on Couric Thursday" ]
Pressed by Couric to admit that he was in on the deception, Te'o said he believed Kekua had died from the cancer.
'You stuck to the script. And you knew that something was amiss, Manti,' the talk show host said.
He replied: 'Katie, put yourself in my situation. I, my whole world told me that she died on September 12. Everybody knew that. This girl, who I committed myself to, died on September 12.'
The Heisman Trophy runner-up said he only learned of the hoax when he received a phone call in early December from a woman saying she was Kekua.
Te'o told Couric: 'From December 6 to January 16, my whole reality is that she was dead and she was suddenly alive.'
[...]
Before the show aired, Te'o's attorney released voicemails of the woman the football star knew to be Kekua, his tragic girlfriend first thought to be dead, then alive and now non-existent.
The three recordings show different sides of Kekua, who is purported to be voiced by Tino Tuiasosopo, the female cousin of the scheme's alleged mastermind, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo.
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