A case for formant analysis in forensic speaker identification

International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 143-173

  Nolan, Francis ^a   Grigoras, Catalin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b National Institute of Forensic Expertise   (Romania)

Author keywords

Formant dynamics; Formants; Long term averages; Speaker identification; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344466332     PISSN: 17488885     EISSN: 17488893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/sll.2005.12.2.143     Document Type: Article

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