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Gunshot Recordings from Digital Voice Recorders

Authors: Maher, Robert C.; Shaw, Steven R.

AES Conference: 54th International Conference: Audio Forensics · Paper 6-1 · June 2014

Abstract

Audio forensic gunshot recordings may come from telephone conversations and land mobile radio traffic recorded at an emergency call center, electronic news gathering activities, surveillance recordings, etc. As an increasing number of law enforcement officers carry digital voice recorders to help document their interactions with citizens and suspects, it has become common for audio forensic examiners to encounter gunshot evidence from voice recorders. Because these off-the-shelf devices incorporate microphones, electronics, and digital coding algorithms intended to capture intelligible human speech and not gunfire, the examiner must consider the strengths and weaknesses of the portable digital voice recorder when interpreting forensic audio gunshot evidence.

Details

Published in
AES Conference: 54th International Conference: Audio Forensics
Paper number
6-1
Publication date
June 6, 2014
Session subject
Gunshot Analysis
Affiliation
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper