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RESULTS ON LAST WORDS BY GUNMAN AT TROLLY STATION by 4butnomorethan30characters
Sulejmen Talovic opened fire in a Salt Lake City mall, killing five people before being gunned down by police. I wanted to know if his last words were "Allahu Akhbar", so I took the time to review audio from video recorded on scene. I'm presenting my personal findings for others to review. I have eliminated all portions of the audio not related to the "Allahu Akhbar" reference. I attempted to cross-reference my results against several speech recognition software titles with no success due to reverb. I did not want to compromise or alter the phrasing in any way, so I elected not to attempt any reverb elimination. That could give a false conclusion.
Conditions of review.
Software: AVS Audio Editor version 3.4
Original File: mallshooting.wma/ 48,000 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo; 128 kbps
Audio Editing: Insertion of silence at beginning or endings. Normalization as industry standard. No effects, no filters, no amplification, or any other modifications.
(Caption 1: Full Sample Clip with markers) Listen to Clip Here
Marker 1 "Aa"
Marker 2 "la" or "la-u"
Marker 3 "ak"
Marker 4 "ba"
Marker 5 "r" (distinct ending as expected)
Marker 6 "Al"
Marker 7 "la"
Marker 8 "ak"
Marker 9 "ba"
Marker 10 "r" (distinct and proper ending as expected)
At this point in the audio, I determined the vocals to be indistinguishable. There are similarities that could lead one to think a third attempt at the phrase was started. The audio and graphic stop at this point, as gunshots occur and mask the individuals voice.
Interesting.