The Forensic Sound Laboratory

Address and Contact Details

Postal: PO Box 740 Katoomba NSW 2780 Australia

Street: 46 Inconstant St Blackheath NSW 2785 Australia

phone: 61 2 47876555

Fax: 61 2 47876556

Email: forsound@bigpond.net.au

drjotibbitts@brainwavesastepahead.com.au

yibinlu@brainwavesastepahead.com.au

www.theforensicsoundlaboratory.com.au


Qualifications, Experience:

Dr Jo Tibbitts (PhD, BE1st, MIEEE, MASA, MANZFSS, MASSTA)

Dr YiBin Lu (PhD, BE1st, MIEEE)

BASA - Forensic Sound and Expert Witness Experience from 1999 to present

Court Reports

Transcript of Extracts of Evidence Surveillance Tape

Analysis of speech on Evidence Surveillance Tape

Noise Removal of Speech and Enhancement of speech on Evidence Surveillance Tapes

Initial Investigation into Information Source Credibility on Evidence
Surveillance Tapes

Analysis of Speech on Evidence Surveillance Tape and Expert Witness

Noise Removal of Speech and Enhancement of speech on Evidence Surveillance Tapes

Initial Transcript of Evidence Surveillance Tape

Addendum to Report of Evidence Surveillance Tape

Verified Scientific Transcript of Evidence Surveillance Tape

Verified Scientific Transcript of Evidence Surveillance Tape

Verified Scientific Transcript of Evidence Surveillance Tape

Work Analysis re Speech Enhancement

Verified Transcript of Evidence Surveillance Tape

Work Analysis of Speech Processing

Verified Transcript of part of Evidence Surveillance Tape and Court Expert Witness

Tape Analysis and preliminary Transcript of Evidence Surveillance Tape

Preliminary Information Source Credibility Analysis of CD

Preliminary Information Source Credibility Analysis of audio tape

Work Analysis of Speaker Identification

Speaker Identification of Evidence Surveillance Tape

Speaker Identification of Evidence Surveillance Tape

Verified Transcript of Evidence Surveillance Tape

Work Analysis of Speaker Identification of Evidence Surveillance Tape

Preliminary Noise Analysis and Information Source Credibility Analysis of VHS media tape

Noise Analysis, Verified Transcript, Speech Enhancement and Information Source Credibility Analysis of extract on VHS media tape

Initial Transcript of sound track on Vhs media

Preliminary Speaker Identification

Preliminary Noise Removal

Work Analysis of Information Source Credibility

Reliability Analysis of CDs & DVDs

Verified Transcript of Audio CD

Verified Transcript of Audio CD

Preliminary Information Source Credibility Analysis of analog video tape, CD and DVD

Noise Analysis, Verified Transcript, Speech Enhancement of extract on Dictaphone

Verified Transcript

Work Analysis re Speech Processing

Verified Transcript, Speech Enhancement of extract on VHS tape

Speaker Identification of extract on audio tape

Ten court appearance between 1999 and present


Subject Areas:

Forensic Speech and Audio Processing - Signal Processing in all forensic applications concerning Speech, Sound and Audio

Speech Enhancement - Enhancement of speech to improve the intelligibility

Media Authentication - Check the integrity of speech or sound evidence. Check for tampering or alteration of speech or sound evidence

Noise Removal - Removal of noise from speech or sound media

Audio Enhancement - Enhancement of audio media to improve the quality of sound

Speaker Identification - Voice Identification using Signal Processing
techniques

Scientific Transcripts - Scientifically valid approach to transcript
acquistion

Audio Media Translation - High quality transformation from one media source to another

Sound Identification - Identification of sounds

Work Analysis - Analysis of forensic speech or audio work done by other parties

Audio Scene Analysis - Analysis of environment and sequence of events based on conversation and noise analysis