THE IMPORTANCE OF FORENSIC PHONETICS IN VOICE IDENTIFICATION
Keywords:
форензичка фонетика, идентификација гласа, изговор, спектрограм, форензички фонетичар, говорни језикAbstract
The present paper deals with the importance of forensic phonetics in voice identification. The paper discusses three major parts of phonetics and also deals with methods and techniques used in voice identification. Phonetics and phonology, as important linguistic disciplines, are also dealt with in the paper. One of the main tasks of the forensic phonetician is to identify people on the basis of recorded spoken language samples. This forensic activity relies on the distinctiveness of the human voice and it has often been more successful than the identification of individual persons through written language. The spectrogram is a very important device in the voice identification process. A completely reliable method of voice identification has not been discovered. Nevertheless, there are several very successful techniques which are used in the process. Forensic phonetics is a vast field which is growing more specialized all the time. It requires highly trained experienced scientists with a strong background in linguistic theory and practice.
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