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2nd Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics |
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Tutorial and Special Session on
Forensic Voice Comparison
and Forensic Acoustics
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Tutorial and Special Session website
http://cancun2010.forensic-voice-comparison.net
Tutorial and Special Session organized by
Geoffrey Stewart Morrison
last update
23 December 2009
Introduction
In February 2009 the National Research Council (NRC) Report to Congress on Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States found that:
Over the last decade, a small number of researchers (principally in Australia, Spain, and Switzerland) have been working on developing demonstrably reliable forensic voice comparison with evidence evaluated using the same framework as is applied to the evaluation of DNA evidence.
Meanwhile in the Americas there has been little interest in this field of research.
The NRC report gives a new impetus for conducting forensic voice comparison research and holds out the hope for new funding opportunities in this area.
The 2nd Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics provides an excellent opportunity to bring together researchers from Iberia and other parts of the world with researchers from the Americas to help foster research in this area in the Americas.
It also provides a venue for an exchange of ideas between researchers working on acoustic-phonetic and signal-processing approaches to forensic voice comparison.
Tutorial
The tutorial will present an introduction to the forensic evaluation of acoustic evidence using the same framework as is applied to the evaluation of DNA evidence.
Both acoustic-phonetic and signal-processing approaches to forensic voice comparison will be described.
The focus will be on evidence in the from of voice recordings, but the evaluative framework can also be applied to other forms of evidence, including audio recordings of other types of acoustic events, and the tutorial should therefore be of value to anyone interested in forensic acoustics in general, not just forensic voice comparison.
Presenters:
Both presenters are invited lecturers in the Judicial Phonetics Specialization in the Masters in Phonetics and Phonology Program of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spanish National Research Council] / Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo.
They previously presented a similar tutorial at the International Speech Communication Association’s Intespeech 2008 conference.
The tutorial will be presented in English, but both presenters can also field questions in Spanish.
Special Session
Sponsored jointly by the Speech Communication and the Signal Processing in Acoustics Technical Committees.
Papers and posters on acoustic-phonetic and signal-processing approaches to demonstrably reliable forensic evaluation of audio recordings of human voices and other acoustic events.
The session will consist of a six oral presentation in a two-hour time slot, followed by a poster session.
The oral session will focus on forensic voice comparison, but the poster session will cover forensic acoustics in general.
Invited speakers:
(the following have provisionally agreed to present papers)
Links
Iberoamerican Federation of Acoustics – Federación/Federação Iberoamericana de Acústica
Mexican Institute of Acoustics – Instituto Mexicano de Acústica