Audio (Tape) Recording & Authentication Consultants, Page 1

Mr. Broyles represents 19 years experience in providing expert witness and forensic examination services combined with 32+ years experience in research, design & development of computer software and electronic products to include forensic lab equipment and forensic audio/video/image software. This combination of experience gives invaluable insights into the forensic processes and application in each unique case or project. Court Qualified. Detail CV available on request.

Areas of Expertise:

Audio, Video and Voice Recordings
Voice Identification / Comparison / Elimination
Forensic Transcription / Transcriptions
Surveillance/Time Lapse Video Processing
Authentication, Enhancement, Restoration
Noise Reduction /Removal / Improve Intelligibility
Video Frame/Field Capture and Printing
Signal Recovery, Restoration and Clarification
Magnetic Microscopy and Imaging Services
Vintage/Obsolete Computer Data Recovery and Conversion, Translation

Digital Image/Photograph Analysis
Recording Equipment Analysis and Testing
Recording Equipment Restoration
Playback Speed Correction
Media Repair and Cleaning Services
Many Tape and Digital Formats Supported
Related Litigation Support
Technical Research and/of Forensic Applications
Dictaphone Restoration and Transfer Services

Specializing in Recorded Evidence Analysis, Enhancement and Restoration Services of Video, Audio, Image, Sound, Voice, Surveillance and Time Lapse Recordings; both digital and analog; through the use of custom and professional analysis systems.

Providing court qualified expert witness services to assist litigation support, public defenders, law enforcement, attorneys, government, and the general public. Since 2004. Local, nationwide and international.

Stated goal is to help you get the most from your recorded evidence. Call now to get started.

Memberships, Affiliations and Training:

Audio Engineering Society (AES)
Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
Law Enforcement Video and Emergency Services Video Association (LEVA)
New York Institute for Forensic Audio (NYIFA)
International Association of Identification Rocky Mtn Division (RMDIAI)

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USAForensic is a boutique state-of-the-art forensics company with two labs in Phoenix Arizona and our booking office on the east coast. This helps with an earlier start each day and with overseas cases.

Specializing in forensic Audio, Video, Cell Phones, Computers Photography & ”Cell Tower tracking” debunking. USAForensic is court certified in Federal, US Military, US District, many State and county courts throughout the United States. International cases are not uncommon. Mr. Neumeister has worked in 23 countries over the past 40 years.

Clients range from the largest Law firms to private firms, large corporations, the Department of Defense, government agencies, advocacy groups, the DOJ to the innocence project.

Technology is flying past the court system. We’re here to work with attorneys to understand how to deal with digital or analog evidence, how to challenge it or how to get it admitted into evidence.

We prefer to work in the background assisting attorneys, even writing out Daubert 702 & 902 issues regarding other parties evidence submissions.

In a recent Federal Daubert hearing USAForensic worked with DOD JAG attorneys to get police cell tower tracking ruled inadmissible. The federal judge rule police cell tower tracking as “Garbage in, Garbage out”.

Not a verifiable science, not peer reviewed, no scientific white-paper to support its use.

Over 600 cases in the past 3 years. From the very highest profile to simple straightforward forensic cell phone extractions or video and audio clarification for court use.

To us Data is Data & takes no side, but it has to be verifiable data.

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4/11/2013 · Investigation & Surveillance

The Truth About Surveillance Systems : Reality vs. TV

By: Bryan Neumeister

We've all seen the TV crime shows where the forensic technician opens the grainy surveillance, then zooms in on a tiny face, license plate or scrap of paper, hits the enhance button and, magically, the image becomes sharp and clear (accompanied by appropriate background music).

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Durand R. Begault received a PhD in Computer Audio from UC San Diego in 1988 and an MFA from Mills College in 1981. He has been associated with the Audio Forensic Center and Charles M. Salter Associates, Inc. since 1996 and has worked as an expert witness, legal consultant, and acoustical consultant on a variety of audio-related cases since 1988. Dr. Begault also holds a research position at NASA Ames Research Center and is an adjunct faculty member at McGill University. He is the author of several U.S. patents and is qualified as an expert witness in both Federal and State Courts. Dr. Begault has testified in over 40 cases on a variety of audio technology and forensic audio-related cases.

Areas of Expertise:

Audio Technology Patent / Intellectual Property Analyses
Forensic Audio and Video Tape Examination / Authentication
Analysis of Speech, Alarms, Warning Signal Audibility
Voice Identification and Elimination
Analysis of ‘Ear Witness’ Testimony
Enhancement of Speech from Noisy Audio / Video Tape Recordings
Music Copyright Infringement and Musicological Analysis
Gunshots
Acoustical Test and Measurement - Environmental Sound
Noise Exposure
Software / Hardware Black Box Testing for Infringement
Videotape Image Enhancement
Analysis of Digital Recordings

Please contact the Marketing Department at Charles M. Salter Associates, Inc./Audio Forensic Center for Dr. Begault’s current CV.

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8/30/2017 · Audio Forensics

Forensic Sound Analyses of Cellular Telephone Recordings

By: Dr. Durand R. Begault

Recordings involving cellular telephones or personal digital assistants (“PDAs”) are increasingly the source evidence in audio forensic examinations, compared to recordings originating with other devices such as hand-held digital recorders. On modern PDA cellular telephones recordings can be made either directly to the telephone or transmitted as voice mail messages. The current investigation focuses on differences in the two types of recordings in terms of dynamic range and linearity of levels. Such information can be important for characterizing the distance of sound sources relative to the microphone and are important for understanding transformation of recorded speech and non-speech sounds.

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3D Sound for Virtual Reality and Multimedia

Durand R. Begault, PhD

Written by an author with expertise in both theory and applications, 3D Sound for Virtual Reality and Multimedia provides readers an essential technical foundation in sound and virtual reality. The book covers components of spatial auditory displays; psychoacoustics of spatial hearing; what sounds are appropriate to spatialize; applications to human-machine interfaces (including virtual reality and multimedia); computer music; and room acoustics.

George Reis is the president and owner of Imaging Forensics, Inc., and has been providing expert witness services and training in Forensic Image Analysis, Forensic Video Analysis, and Forensic and Technical Photography through Imaging Forensics since 2004. He is Certified in Forensic Photography and Imaging by the International Association for Identification, and is certified in Forensic Video Analysis by the Law Enforcement and Video Services Association (LEVA). He is a member of the editorial review board for the Journal of Forensic Identification.

Litigation Support - Mr. Reis has testified more than 80 times in depositions and in Federal, State, and Military Courts. He has provided training throughout the United States to individuals and agencies including the FBI, Secret Service, US Army Crime Lab; and internationally in England, Hong Kong, Singapore, Qatar, Canada, and Australia.

Mr. Reis worked from 1989 to 2004 at the Newport Beach Police Department in Southern California, as a forensic photographer, image analyst, crime scene investigator, and latent fingerprint examiner. He introduced digital imaging to that agency in 1992, making them one of the first law enforcement agencies in the world to utilize this technology.

Image Analysis Services:
- Image and Video Analysis, Image and Video Authentication, Image and Video Enhancement, Comparative Analysis
Forensic Photography:
- Items of Evidence, Close-up / Macro Photography, Exploded View Photography, Low Altitude Aerial Photography, Crime and Accident Scenes, Eyewitness Perspective, Reverse Projection / Reconstruction
Training:
- Over 1,000 police agencies have taken advantage of digital imaging training by Imaging Forensics — either through regional workshops or in-house training. Imaging Forensics offers regional workshops throughout the United States as well as in-house training to meet the needs of your agency.

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10/24/2013 · Digital Forensics

Imaging Forensics: Countering Bad Science

By: George Reis

When attorneys get a copy of opposing counsel's expert reports, sometimes they are quite surprised by what they read - it's just bad science. And, in these cases they will then retain their own expert to counter, and possibly quash, the other experts opinion. I've been retained in numerous cases to do this, and I'll discuss four to illustrate the benefit this has, and to help illustrate the kind of work that I do.

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3/21/2012 · Forensics

Imaging Forensics: When to hire an expert

By: George Reis

I was recently retained on a civil case just a month before the trial date. When called about the case, I was told that the firm never thought of hiring a forensic photographer until one showed up in opposing counsel’s expert list. In this case, I needed to photograph the scene of an accident to depict what could be seen from a specific perspective, at a specific time of day, under specific lighting conditions.

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11/8/2011 · Digital Forensics

Imaging Forensics: So, What's the Story on Resolution?

By: George Reis

My post on Synchronizing Video has generated a few comments related to image resolution. Three people, all of whom have a significant background in forensic imaging, have made rather divergent comments. Multiple topics are being addressed, from crime scene, accident and evidence photography to latent print photography to SWGFAST guidelines/requirements to the resolution of video security camera systems.

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9/14/2011 · Digital Forensics

Imaging Forensics: In Photography and Video - We Want the Original Images

By: George Reis

It always surprises me how often retaining attorneys send me digital copies of scanned color laser prints of photos in PDF format, or transcoded video files to do an analysis.

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7/22/2011 · Forensics

Imaging Forensics: Is Your Expert An Expert?

By: George Reis

On a recent case opposing counsel hired a forensic photographer. The case involved an accident at night in which visibility was a key factor.

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David Smith specializes in Recording Authentication, Speech Enhancement, Voice Identification/Elimination & Forensic Audio Analysis. Sound Testimony's proprietary's hardware/software systems recover intelligible speech and other sounds from noise-intensive backgrounds & poorly recorded media. Mr. Smith has more than three decades of professional forensic audio analysis experience in criminal and civil cases including murder, corporate fraud, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, labor, and family law. Mr. Smith consults with counsel offering audio forensic evidence examination, analysis, litigation support, expert advice, expert testimony, and related expert witness services including preparation of cross-examinations and courtroom presentations. Clients include Prosecutors, Defense Attorneys, Family Law & General Practice Attorneys, other Legal & Investigative Professionals, HR Departments, Corporations, Private Detectives, & Individuals.

Services Offered:

Recording Authentication / Tampering & Editing Detection
Forensic Quality Enhancement / Voice and Sound Extraction
Intelligibility Improvement
Transcript Review & Correction
Voice Recognition and/or Elimination
Expert Testimony
ALL services are available for Webcams, Body-cams, Dash-cams, and Security Cameras

Authentication and/or Intelligibility Improvement of:

911 calls
Accidental Recordings
Cell Phone Recordings
Video Recordings
Portable Recorders
Interviews
Depositions
Meetings

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2/15/2016 · Audio Forensics

Audio Forensics: What We Hear v. What We Record

By: David Smith

In Audio Forensics, it often comes down to ears versus microphones. In one corner, we have the human ear with all its amazing capabilities. In the other corner, the fantastic piece of technology known as the microphone, with its ability to record sound to a digital file or tape for later playback.

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8/26/2015 · Audio Forensics

Audio Forensic Analysis: What Happens In Jail, Stays In Jail... Or Does It?

By: David Smith

A confrontation between an inmate and a Corrections Officer leads to accusations of mistreatment on one side and claims of justifiable action on the other. It was one person's word against another until an unexpected recording came to light and, with the help of sophisticated audio forensic analysis and processing, the truth was revealed.

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7/28/2015 · Audio Forensics

Pocket Dialing and Voicemail

By: David Smith

Pocket dialing occurs when a mobile phone's touch pad is pressed by something in a person's pocket or purse, or, if the person happens to sit down a certain way, a part of their anatomy. If the pressed key or screen surface area is programmed to dial or redial a telephone number, a call occurs. This call often goes undetected by the phone's owner. Some phones are more prone to this phenomenon than others.

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2/27/2013 · Audio Forensics

Family Law Audio Evidence: Altered Without Editing?

By: David Smith

A party in a divorce case hired me after his attorney told him that his wife's council was planning to introduce audio recordings during an upcoming custody hearing.

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1/14/2013 · Audio Forensics

Audio Restoration vs. Audio Forensics

By: David Smith

You have an audio recording that may be used as evidence in an upcoming court case. Looking for a way to make it easier to hear, you do an on-line search and come upon a list of "Audio Restoration companies." The ads state that these sites can lower or eliminate noise and restore recordings to their original quality.

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