AES recommended practice for forensic purposes – Managing recorded audio materials intended for examination

Project scope: This standard specifies recommended practices for safekeeping, conveyance, inspection, description, and labeling of audio recordings offered as evidence in criminal investigations, in criminal or civil proceedings, or in other forensic applications. For the purposes of this document, magnetic tapes include audio recordings and video recordings based upon magnetic transcription principles, regardless of the physical size, packaging, recording format, recording type (such as analog, digital, frequency-modulation), or recording speed of the tapes. Special practices for nonaudio portions of such recordings are beyond the scope of this standard. This document does not cover analysis of magnetic tapes or other recording media for the purposes of authenticity determination, talker identification, copyright violation, enhancement of oral conversations or other signals, or otherwise characterizing signals recorded on such tapes.
Assigned to: SC-00, Status: AES27-1996 stabilized
Intent: Stabilization, Initiated: 2008, Target: none
Current goal: none, Goal date: none