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Forensic Voice Identification Utilizing Digitally Extracted Speech Characteristics

By combining modern capabilities in the digital domain with more traditional methods of aural comparison and spectrographic inspection, the acquisition of identity from recorded evidence can be executed with greater confidence. To aid the Audio Forensic Examiner’s efforts in this, an effective approach to manual voice identification is presented here. To this end, this paper relates the research into and application of unique vocal characteristics utilized by the SIDNI (Speaker Identification by Numerical Imprint) automated system of voice identification to manual forensic investigation. Some characteristics include: fundamental speaking frequency, rate of vowels, proportional relationships in spectral distribution, amplitude of speech, and perturbation measurements.

Authors: Smith, Jeff M.; Sanders, Richard
Affiliation: University of Colorado Denver
AES Convention:125 (October 2008) Paper Number:7644 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Forensic Analysis

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