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Article: Forensic Voice and Tape Analysis
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- Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, andSecurity
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Forensic Voice and Tape Analysis
Methods of forensic voice and tape analysis first entered the limelight during the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s, and the basic methodology
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if not the tools and precision with which the techniques are practiced
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has changed little since. Much of this field is concerned with identification or elimination using voice-stress analysis, but controversy over techniques and their admissibility as evidence remains. This disagreement, even among specialists, came to the forefront as forensic scientists on both sides of the Atlantic studied tapes allegedly released by terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden in the fall of 2002.
Early history.
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