Forensic Articles

July 31, 2018

The Digital Detectives – the Key to Understanding Digital Evidence

In today’s world of non-stop snaps, Instagram and Facebook posts, CCTV surveillance, dashcams, and cellphone use, recorded evidence has become an essential part of investigative practices.  When dealing with multimedia evidence, the “digital evidence” needs to understand what is actually […]
July 30, 2018

Law And The Expert Witness- The Admissibility Of Recorded Evidence

Audio tapes, Video Tapes, Voice Identification, Enhancement and Authenticity Issue related to the admissibility of recorded media must pass certain legal criteria before it can be presented as evidence in a court of law. The dictionary meaning of the word […]
July 28, 2018

American Board of Recorded Evidence – Voice Comparison Standards

AMERICAN BOARD of RECORDED EVIDENCE   VOICE COMPARISON STANDARDS Abstract   This document specifies the requirements of the American Board of Recorded Evidence for the comparison of recorded voice samples. These standards have been established for all practitioners of the […]
July 29, 2018

Voice Identification The Aural/Spectrographic Method

I – Introduction The forensic science of voice identification has come a long way from when it was first introduced in the American courts back in the mid 1960’s. In the early days of this identification technique there was little […]