TY - JOUR
T1 - International Practices in Forensic Speaker Comparisons
T2 - Second Survey
AU - Gold, Erica
AU - French, Peter
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank all the survey participants for their insightful responses and for making this article possible. Thanks go to the two anonymous reviewers and Dr Michael Jessen for their helpful feedback. Finally, we would also like to thank the School of Music, Humanities and Media at the University of Huddersfield for supporting this project with an Early Career Project Grant.
Funding Information:
Erica Gold is currently a Reader in Forensic Speech Science at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom. Her research interests include forensic speech science, phonetics, sociolinguistics, accents and dialects, and speech and identity. She is currently the Principal Investigator on the West Yorkshire Regional English Database (WYRED) Project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/N003268/1), where she is collecting the largest forensically relevant British English database to date.
Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/6/27
Y1 - 2019/6/27
N2 - A survey relating to current practices in forensic speaker comparison testing was recently undertaken of 39 laboratories and individual practitioners across 23 countries. Questions were organised around a number of themes, including the preliminary assessment and preparation of case materials, the checking of analysts’ work, frameworks used for the expression of conclusions, the use of automaticspeaker recognition systems, the use of reference populations, and awareness of cognitive bias. Developmental trends in this area of forensic speech science are established by comparing responses to the present survey with those to the authors’ earlier survey published in 2011.
AB - A survey relating to current practices in forensic speaker comparison testing was recently undertaken of 39 laboratories and individual practitioners across 23 countries. Questions were organised around a number of themes, including the preliminary assessment and preparation of case materials, the checking of analysts’ work, frameworks used for the expression of conclusions, the use of automaticspeaker recognition systems, the use of reference populations, and awareness of cognitive bias. Developmental trends in this area of forensic speech science are established by comparing responses to the present survey with those to the authors’ earlier survey published in 2011.
KW - Forensic Speaker Comparison
KW - Methods
KW - Practices
KW - Preparation
KW - Automatic Speaker Recognition (ASR) Systems
KW - Conclusion Frameworks
KW - cognitive bias
KW - reference populations
KW - Developmental trends
KW - Conclusion frameworks
KW - Automatic speaker recognition (asr) systems
KW - Reference populations
KW - Forensic speaker comparison
KW - Cognitive bias
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U2 - 10.1558/ijsll.38028
DO - 10.1558/ijsll.38028
M3 - Article
VL - 26
SP - 1
EP - 20
JO - International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law
JF - International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law
SN - 1748-8885
IS - 1
ER -