Strength of forensic speaker identification evidence: Multispeaker formant- and cepstrum-based segmental discrimination with a Bayesian likelihood ratio as threshold

Speech, Language and the Law

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 179-202

  Rose, Phil ^a   Osanai, Takashi ^b   Kinoshita, Yuko ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Saga Prefectural Police Headquarters   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayes' theorem; Cepstrum; Forensic speaker identification; Formants; Likelihood ratio; Strength of evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843106634     PISSN: 13501771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/sll.2003.10.2.179     Document Type: Article

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