Push for linguists to analyze recordings used in court
This is a project pushing for professional phonetic analysis of covert recordings used in legal trials. Covert recordings (often the result of being "bugged") are even harder to interpret than live testimony, which was discussed in the Rickford/King paper, because of the low audio recording quality. Often jurors are presented with transcriptions made by police and detectives, which can heavily bias their interpretation of what they hear. This project wants phoneticians to analyze these recordings in order to get a more accurate and fair transcription.