18.2142, Books: Forensic Linguistics/Phonetics: Alderman

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Date: 12-Jul-2007
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Forensic Speaker Identification: Alderman

 

	
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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:45:16
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Forensic Speaker Identification: Alderman 
 



Title: Forensic Speaker Identification 
Subtitle: a Likelihood Ratio-based Approach Using Vowel Formants 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Phonetics 01  

Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu
	
Author: Tony G. Alderman

Paperback: ISBN: 3895867152  Pages: 160 Price: Europe EURO 57.00


Abstract:

Note: This is the second edition of a previously announced book.

This monograph describes an experiment in Forensic Speaker Identification,
showing how speech samples from the same speaker can be discriminated from
speech from different speakers with acoustic features commonly used in
forensics. It also explains what is now considered the legally and
logically correct approach to Forensic Speaker Identification, and presents
data that can be used both in real casework and in further testing.

Forensic Speaker Identification is typically concerned with addressing the
question of whether two or more speech samples have been produced by the
same, or different, speakers. Research over the last decade has shown that
the legally and logically correct way of doing this is by using a Bayesian
Likelihood Ratio. The monograph explains what a Likelihood Ratio is; why
its use is now considered correct; and how it can be used to successfully
discriminate same-speaker pairs from different-speaker pairs. The tests are
performed on data from eleven male speakers of Australian English, with
non-contemporaneous samples, using formant values at target for their long
monophthongal vowels. Likelihood Ratios are estimated using two formulae
with different assumptions regarding the distribution of the reference data.

Reference data is also presented which is potentially useful for various
permutations of the different-speaker hypothesis for male speakers of
Australian English.

2nd printing 2007. 



Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics
                     Phonetics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=30259


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