An Assessment of methods and techniques  used in Forensic Linguistics

Raed Toghuj

Forensic linguistics is based on the discourse that occurs in court room, court room translation and interpretation, comprehensibility of texts and legal documents, comprising the police caution issued to criminals or suspects, and the utilisation of linguistic evidence in the courts proceedings. In the last few years, despite of the fact regarding advanced development of the state-of-the-art forensic linguistic methods and techniques such as speaker recognition system have depicted considerable progression in the last few years (Bali et al., 2020). Level of performance of these system do not yet appears to warrant massive introduction in comparison to applications with low risk (Marfianto and Riadi, 2018). Conditions and situations typical of forensic background for instance difference in equipment of recording and channels of transmission, the existence of background noise and variation due to communicative context differences endure to pose major challenge in the field of forensic linguistics (Baror et al., 2021). Consequently, the influence of technology of automatic speaker recognition and related technologies has been comparatively uncertain and practice of forensic speaker identification stays massively dominated by the utilisation of broad variety of hugely subjective processes (Wright, 2017). 

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