Links for Forensic Phonetics

General information

• Helen Fraser’s website – a very useful overview of the practices of forensic phonetics
• review of research by Ton Broeders for Interpol, 2001
• Peter Tiersma’s Language & Law website (mostly forensic linguistics rather than phonetics)
• annotated bibliography of texts in forensic phonetics by Jonas Lindh (PDF file)

Associations, journals, discussion lists

• International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics
• International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law (formerly Forensic Linguistics)
• forensic linguistics e-mail discussion list and archives

Media – reports involving forensic phonetic analysis

• Osama Bin Laden
• Yorkshire Ripper
• Wearside Jack (hoaxer in Ripper case)
• Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
• David Bieber
• President Kuchma of the Ukraine
• Sean Hoey (accused of Omagh bomb)
• asylum seekers
• voice analysis software for commerce
• Prince Harry and the art teacher
• forensic audio: audibility of screams; on the use of a dead sheep

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