Beware of the 'telephone effect': The influence of telephone transmission on the measurement of formant frequencies

Speech, Language and the Law

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 80-99

  Künzel, Hermann J ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dialectology; Forensic speaker recognition; Spectrographic analysis; Spectrographic shifting; Telephone transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 56249083582     PISSN: 13501771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/sll.2001.8.1.80     Document Type: Article

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