Speaker identification by speech spectrograms: A scientists' view of its reliability for legal purposes.

Number 90
Year 1970
Drawer 2
Entry Date 04/02/1998
Authors Bolt, R. H., Cooper, F. S., David, E. E.Jr., Denes, P. B., Pickett, J. M., & Stevens, K. N.
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Publication Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 47, 597-612.
url http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0090.pdf
Abstract Can you reliably identify a person by examining the spectrographic patterns of his speech sounds? This is a scientific problem of social consequence because of the interest of the courts in this question. The Technical Committee on Speech Communication of the Acoustical Society of America has asked some of its members to review the matter from a scientific point of view. The topics they considered included the nature speech information as it relates to speaker identification, a comparison of voice patterns and fingerprint patterns, experimental evidence on voice identification, and requirements for validation of such identification methods. Findings conclusions are reported; supporting information is given in appendixes.
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