Voice Analyst
By Jasmine Stengel
Definition:
A voice analyst is the study of speech sounds for purposes other than linguistic content, such as in speech recognition, the studies also include mostly medical analysis of the voice.
How is this field used in forensics?
-Establish the quality of recording
-Visually examine the original recording
-Examine waveform and spectrogram
-Examines if there's one or more persons
-Creates back to back comparison file.
Citations:
- http://www.audioforensicexpert.com/services/voice-identification-voiceprint-identification/
- https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAYQjB1qFQoTCJeSqNen1scCFYw9Pgod9c8PNA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.assap.ac.uk%2Fnewsite%2Farticles%2FAnalysing%2520audio%2520EVP.html&ei=jtnlVZeTLIz7-AH1n7-gAw&psig=AFQjCNGgwmJeBOXeQfV5pfjh_hk-btYOJw&ust=144121319745068
- http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/SimplifiedGuideAudioVideo.pdf