Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart (2018). The impact in forensic voice comparison of lack of calibration and of mismatched conditions between the known-speaker recording and the relevant-population sample recordings. Forensic Science International, 283 , e1-e7.
Abstract
In a 2017 New South Wales case, a forensic practitioner conducted a forensic voice comparison using a Gaussian mixture model – universal background model (GMM-UBM). The practitioner did not report the results of empirical tests of the performance of this system under conditions reflecting those of the case under investigation. The practitioner trained the model for the numerator of the likelihood ratio using the known-speaker recording, but trained the model for the denominator of the likelihood ratio (the UBM) using high-quality audio recordings, not recordings which reflected the conditions of the known-speaker recording. There was therefore a difference in the mismatch between the numerator model and the questioned-speaker recording versus the mismatch between the denominator model and the questioned-speaker recording. In addition, the practitioner did not calibrate the output of the system. The present paper empirically tests the performance of a replication of the practitioner’s system. It also tests a system in which the UBM was trained on known-speaker-condition data and which was empirically calibrated. The performance of the former system was very poor, and the performance of the latter was substantially better.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.12.024 |
---|---|
Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities |
Additional Information: | © 2017, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Forensic voice comparison,Automatic speaker recognition,GMM-UBM,ikelihood ratio,Validation,Calibration,Admissibilit |
Publication ISSN: | 0379-0738 |
Last Modified: | 30 Sep 2024 11:23 |
Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2017 08:55 |
Full Text Link: | |
Related URLs: |
https://www.sco ... 0221676b8092e13
(Scopus URL) http://linkingh ... 379073817305406 (Publisher URL) |
PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2018-02-01 |
Published Online Date: | 2017-12-19 |
Accepted Date: | 2017-12-12 |
Authors: |
Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart
(
0000-0001-8608-8207)
|
Download
Version: Accepted Version
License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives
| Preview