Forensic audio enhancement is the scientific process of removing unwanted sound from a recording while enhancing or restoring the wanted sound. Most of the time, the wanted sound is conversation or dialogue.
Unwanted sound can interfere with hearing the important portions of a recording. Road noise, HVAC fan hum and other electronic interference can be removed professionally in order for litigators to better hear the events as they occurred.
Above all, the goal of forensic enhancement is to better hear dialogue by removing unwanted noise. This scientific process of improving the quality of dialogue is also known as speech…
As an audio forensic expert, knowing what tools are available for audio enhancement and how they work is extremely important. While compressors are often thought of as tools for music…
Most recordings that I come across as an audio forensic expert require audio enhancement. This is because they are made in poor conditions and have an abundance of noise. Though…
One of the most common jobs for an audio forensic expert is enhancing a digital audio recording for intelligibility and clarification. Audio evidence is often recorded in less than optimal…