He shouldn’t have mentioned suicide...We may end up reading about his ‘suicide’ in the coming weeks. You know the one where the person shoots himself in the back of the head.
An expert in audio forensics contacted by The Daily Beast then examined the recording and confirmed that Wohl was one of the speakers.
“Our findings are that it is highly likely that one of the voice on the recording is Jacob Wohl’s voice,” Hafiz Malik, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, told The Daily Beast after analyzing the recording.
Malik and his graduate student compared the surreptitious recording to publicly-available recordings of Wohl speaking. The pair then matched similar words and syllables, comparing the voice prints in each case.
The stealthy recording was noisy—with hums in the lower register, around 60 and 120 hertz. So Malik and his student compared the “high harmonics,” and got a match.