CALL FOR PAPERS:
 
Speech Communication
Virtual Special Issue
 
Multi-laboratory evaluation of forensic voice comparison systems under conditions reflecting those of a real forensic case (forensic_eval_01)
 
Guest Editors: Geoffrey Stewart Morrison & Ewald Enzinger
 
There is increasing pressure on forensic laboratories to validate the performance of forensic analysis systems before they are used to assess strength of evidence for presentation in court (including pressure from the recently released report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, PCAST). In order to validate a system intended for use in casework, a forensic laboratory needs to evaluate the degree of validity and reliability of the system under forensically realistic conditions.
 
This Speech Communication Virtual Special Issue will consist of papers reporting on the results of testing forensic voice comparison systems under conditions reflecting those of one actual forensic voice comparison case. A set of training and test data representative of the relevant population and reflecting the conditions of this particular case has been released, and operational and research laboratories are invited to use these data to train and test their systems.
 
Details are provided in the introductory paper, which is available on the Virtual Special Issue webpage: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01676393/vsi/10KTJHC7HNM