The early polygraph technology is easily affected by personal factors and external environment, especially the anti-polygraph technology. Although lie detection technology based on electroencephalogram can directly observe neural activity of the relevant brain regions to reveal the internal rules when lies occur, the required professional equipment is too large and expensive to use handle. Compared with the above technologies, lie detection technology in speech has spatio-temporal span and high concealment, etc. The development situation of current polygraph technology and basic principle are described, the types and characteristics of non-speech and speech related indicators are introduced and analyzed. Then, several public speech databases for lie detection are introduced, and the research progress of lie detection algorithm is highlighted. Finally, the future direction of lie detection technology in speech is summarized from five parts, i.e., the Chinese corpus, speech feature extraction, anti-polygraph technology, theoretical research and related auxiliary work.