Video: Enhancing and transcribing indistinct forensic audio (AAFS presentation)
On 6 September 2023, Helen Fraser presented to lawyers and forensic scientists at the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences. Here’s the video – and relevant references are below.
About the Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence
- McMahon, M., & Fraser, H. 2023. Transcription of indistinct forensic audio: Time for reform. Law Institute of Victoria Journal, (August), 20–23.
Legal history of forensic transcription (interpreted for linguistic science)
- Fraser, H. 2021. The development of legal procedures for using a transcript to assist the jury in understanding indistinct covert recordings used as evidence in Australian criminal trials: A history in three key cases. Language and Law / Linguagem e Direito, 8(1), 59-75.
About ‘enhancing’
- See video and references here: Video: Enhancing forensic audio: A presentation at ISCA SPSC
Theoretical background
- Fraser, H. 2022. Forensic transcription: Legal and scientific perspectives. In C. Bernardasci, et al (Eds.), Speaker Individuality in Phonetics and Speech Sciences: Speech Technology and Forensic Applications (pp. 19–32). Milano: Officinaventuno.
- Fraser, H. 2022. A framework for deciding how to create and evaluate transcripts for forensic and other purposes. Frontiers in Communication. 7:898410. (Other articles by Hub colleagues in the same topic)
- Fraser, H., & Loakes, D. 2020. Acoustic injustice: The experience of listening to indistinct covert recordings presented as evidence in court . Law Text Culture, 24, 405-429.
About ‘Adelaide bank account’
- Fraser, H. (2018) ‘Assisting’ listeners to hear words that aren’t there: Dangers in using police transcripts of indistinct covert recordings, Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 50:2, 129-139.
The ‘shot the prick’ case
- Fraser, H., & Kinoshita, Y. 2021. Injustice arising from the unnoticed power of priming: How lawyers and even judges can be misled by unreliable transcripts of indistinct forensic audio. Criminal Law Journal, 45(3), 142-152.
The ‘pact’ case
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Fraser, H. (2018). Forensic transcription: How confident false beliefs about language and speech threaten the right to a fair trial in Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 38(4), 586-606.