Points of Consideration On Voiceprint Analysis
Points of Consideration On Voiceprint Analysis
HANDWRITING
ANALYSIS
COM PU TER
FORE NSICS
VOICE PRIN T
ANALYSIS
6. Voiceprint Analysis
and jaw muscles. It is said that person has unique combination, and
thus unique vocal mechanism.
Process of analysis denotes that recordings are compared to see
similarities and differences in voices. Recordings that are identical in
word content are best, otherwise longer recordings are needed. The
analyst must listen to the voice and see the spectrograms:
Aural/Spectrographic Method
Under Aural/Spectrographic Method, the analyst begins with
recordings of the suspect and recordings of the voice to be identified
said evidence must be examined and determined to be sufficient for
analysis. There are two stages of the aural and visual analysis; First,
the Aural Stage- the analyst listen carefully to single speech sound and
sound combination; Second, the Visual Stage- the spectrogram of the
unknown speaker and that of the suspect are compared.
There are Five Standard Conclusions to be taken into consideration,
positive identification - at least 20 similarities and all differences
accounted for, probable identification - less than 20 similarities and no
unexplained differences, positive elimination - differences or more exist
and cannot be explained away, probable elimination - when recorded
text is limited or of low quality, no decision - when insufficient or too
few common speech sound.
Frye Standard: The accuracy of voiceprint analysis varies from case
to case. There are debate in courts about the "general acceptance" of
voiceprint analysis in the scientific community. Because of this, courts
are sometimes hesitant to accept spectrograms as evidence.
Voiceprint analysis today: it was used last March 2003 to determine
if a broadcast was Saddam Hussein or a double, it can be use also in
identifying speakers in intercepted terrorist messages. And also Garci
Case- the alleged scam in the 2004 Presidential Election.
8. Computer Forensics
Prepared by:
Joeban R. Paza
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