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Manjul Tiwari¹, Maneesha Tiwari

¹Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, School of Dental Sciences, Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Human voices convey identity, emotions, and social group affiliation. Forensic phonetics analyzes voice complexity for speaker identification, though limitations exist in real-world applications.

Keywords:

Forensic phonetic phonetic sound voice

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Area of Science:

Forensic Phonetics
Speech Science
Biometrics

Background:

Human voices are crucial for communication, expressing ideas, emotions, personality, and social/regional identity.
Voices serve as a unique identifier, aiding in recognizing familiar individuals.
Unlike DNA, voices can be recorded during criminal activities, offering potentially incriminating evidence.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore the complexity of human voices.
To explain the inherent limitations of forensic-phonetic methods.
To elucidate how voice characteristics relate to speaker identity.

Main Methods:

Analysis of voice complexity.
Examination of real-world application challenges in forensic phonetics.
Exploration of the relationship between vocal utterances and speaker attribution.

Main Results:

Voices are multifaceted, encoding personal, social, and emotional information.
The complexity of voice and its interaction with real-world conditions pose challenges for forensic analysis.
Current understanding of voice-owner relationships in forensic contexts has limitations.

Conclusions:

Forensic phonetics leverages voice's complexity for speaker identification.
Understanding the limitations is key to accurate voice analysis in legal and security applications.
Further research is needed to refine methods for definitively linking voices to individuals.