The Speaker Identification Ability of Blind and Sighted Listeners
An Empirical Investigation
Authors: Braun, Almut
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Almut Braun carried out forensic phonetic speaker identification experiments (voice lineups) with 306 lay listeners. Blind listeners significantly outperformed sighted listeners when the speech recordings were presented in studio quality. For recordings in mobile phone quality or of whispering voices, blind and sighted listeners achieved similar results. The data can be used as reference material for real cases with blind earwitnesses. Furthermore, it is discussed whether blind individuals are particularly suitable to work as forensic audio analysts for law enforcement agencies.
- About the authors
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Almut Braun was a doctoral candidate in the Department of Phonetics at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. She works currently as a Research Associate in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York, UK.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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The sensory compensation hypothesis
Pages 27-29
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Prior research on blind listeners’ auditory abilities
Pages 31-47
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Possible influences on human speaker identification
Pages 49-56
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Issues to consider when creating a voice lineup
Pages 57-58
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Hypotheses for the experiment
Pages 59-59
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Speaker Identification Ability of Blind and Sighted Listeners
- Book Subtitle
- An Empirical Investigation
- Authors
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- Almut Braun
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-658-15198-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-658-15198-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-658-15197-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVI, 133
- Number of Illustrations
- 19 b/w illustrations
- Topics
