Mismatched distances from speakers to telephone in a forensic-voice-comparison case

Speech Communication

Volumn 70, Issue , 2015, Pages 28-41

  Enzinger, Ewald ^a,b,c   Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distance mismatch; Forensic voice comparison; Likelihood ratio; Mismatch compensation; Validity Reliability

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF VALIDITY; DISTANCE MISMATCH; FORENSIC VOICE COMPARISONS; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; MISMATCH COMPENSATION; MOBILE TELEPHONES; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; TRAINING DATA;

TELEPHONE SETS;

EID: 84926179303     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2015.03.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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