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The Acoustics of Crime

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The speaker recognition scene changes radically when attempts are made to apply modern technology to the problem. Indeed, with the seeming limitless power of electronic hardware and computers, it appears that solutions are but a step away. Yet such may not be the case. For example, many years have passed since the earliest efforts were made to develop machines that would (1) type letters dictated by voice, (2) automatically translate the speech of one language into another, (3) understand spoken speech and (4) identify a person from voice analysis alone. Authors such as Hecker (40) insist that there are no machines which are both as sensitive and as powerful (for these purposes) as the human ear. What Hecker means by “ear” is, of course, the entire auditory sensory system coupled to the brain, with all its sophisticated memory and cognitive functions. He may be correct in his assumptions, but I do not think so. Hence, the issue I will address in this chapter is: can machines/computers be made to operate at least as efficiently as the auditory system for speaker identification purposes? That is, can they be made to mimic these processes or, if not mimic them, at least parallel the recognition task by some other method? Probably so, but the task is not an easy one.

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