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Forensic Transcription in Australia

Forensic transcription is everyone's business – even if you've never heard of it

Forensic Transcription in Australia
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  • Welcome/Start
  • Problem
    • The problem
    • A personal history
    • Some examples
    • Who’s the ringleader in this drugs crime?
    • The problem in a nutshell
  • Cause
    • In case you missed it …
    • The cause in a nutshell
    • Priming
    • Why it is not safe to ask the jury to evaluate indistinct recordings
    • Why comparing alternative transcripts doesn’t necessarily yield the truth of what was said
    • A new take on satanic messages
    • Don’t miss the real life examples!
    • Why don’t they just enhance forensic audio to make it intelligible?
    • Unaccountable ‘enhancing’: Some real examples
  • Case Study
    • Local man convicted of murder by inaccurate police transcript
    • Facts of the matter
    • Questions needing answers
  • Solution
    • Are these problems just too big and too complex to tackle right now?
    • What not to do
    • Whose responsibility?
    • Who benefits?
    • The key to a good solution
  • Learn more
  • News
    • New article on forensic transcription, written for linguists
    • Tutorial on forensic transcription Tues 4 Dec 2018, Sydney
    • New podcast on forensic transcription by the Macquarie Dictionary team
    • My take on the laurel-yanny phenomenon
    • Enhancing indistinct forensic audio – how effective is it?
  • About/Contact
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AAFS talkSMALL

https://forensictranscription.com.au/wp-content/uploads/AAFS-talkSMALL.mp4

Latest news

  • New article on forensic transcription, written for linguists
  • Tutorial on forensic transcription Tues 4 Dec 2018, Sydney
  • New podcast on forensic transcription by the Macquarie Dictionary team

Fun audio examples …

... that pack a powerful theoretical punch. Click here

Videos and presentations

Science, legal, forensic - choose the audience you'd like to have been in.

In a nutshell

Dive in with a 23-minute overview; 'amazing', 'disturbing', 'compelling'.

Too busy to browse?

Key materials in list format.

In the media

  • The Conversation: Legal precedent based on false beliefs proves hard to overturn
  • BBC Radio 4 The Race to Fingerprint the Human Voice
  • The Conversation: The dark side of mondegreens
  • ABC-South Australia Mornings: Ali Clarke interviews Helen Fraser and Tony Kerin (Law Society of SA) https://forensictranscription.com.au/wp-content/uploads/ABC-SA-mornings-with-Ali-Clarke.mp3
  • ABC-Western Australia: Vanessa Mills interviews Helen Fraser
  • The Conversation: Have we brought back police verballing?
  • ABC-TV’s 7:30 report
  • ABC Radio National’s Law Report
  • 2UE John Stanley and Garry Linnell
  • Prof Peter French on BBC4
  • MORE

Could it happen to you?

Follow how a demonstrably inaccurate police transcript put a local man in prison for murder

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