He wanted attention and realizes he is stepping in it.
If you are under duress and screaming for help your voice is going to change from speaking in a calm voice.
If you are under duress and screaming for help your voice is going to change from speaking in a calm voice.
And the likelihood that it was the other guy is what per-cent, exactly?
Or do we just assume that the probability that it’s Martin is over 48%?
Sorry, guys, that’s not the way science is done - it’s just about got to be one of the two, and if you’re doing voice analysis, the least that should be done is to do the same analysis on *both* voices, and assess the relative probabilities.
If that was done, and the numbers say it’s three times as likely its Martin rather than Zimmerman, that might mean something. And if it was twice as likely that it’s Zimmerman rather than Martin, that might mean something as well.
But just trying to voice match one of the guys? - sorry, too much possible error to be worth much, IMHO.
I’m no expert, but...
Wouldn’t a recording of a cell phone conversation
sound different than
A recording of somebody’s voice dozens of feet away from a different cell phone’s microphone?
Military has the technology to find Osama’s voice on the phone from a satellite. Something comparable should be used not the results of this junk science that was just created this year, 2012.
They are also ignoring the witness that said Zimmerman was yelling for help as he head was being pounded on the ground? An eyewitness is less reliable than this idiot?
-PJ
Martin is on top of Zimmerman kicking his ass and we’re supposed to believe Martin is screaming for help?
Unless they can reanimate Trayvon’s corpse there is no way to prove it was his scream. Tom Owen is just doing his best Brian Meehan impersonation trying to get some extra court business.
maybe the sound “expert” should ‘listen’ to the voice of the eyewitness who has said he ‘observed’ it was Zimmerman who was screaming for help.
just offhand, Does anyone know at this point if Martin had been told by family in the complex, or by others, who Zimmerman was? Wasn’t Martin supposed to be staying at his father’s fiancee’s apartment? If Martin was staying there temporarily because he was expelled from school, why was Martin’s little brother there, too? How often did Martin and his little brother stay at the fiancee’s? (Shouldn’t he have been home with Mom?) Did the fiancee know who Zimmerman was, and what did she know about the neighborhood watch program? What were her feelings about the program? Did she support it or participate? Why hasn’t she been interviewed? Did Martin’s mother know about the program? Did the father know? Either of them ever participate in a neighborhood watch program? Is there video from the 7-11 that shows Martin either inside or outside? anyone he may have been meeting up? phone record? toxicology? any details like that? anywhere? thanks in advance.
Who paid the “expert?”
PSEUDO_”SCIENCE”_PING!
The sound expert’s Resume:
Previous Employment
1. Climate change researcher.
2. Solar energy manufacturing.
3. Community organizer.
I think you may be misunderstanding what the man is saying because he’s couching it in the kinds of terms you usually see in courtrooms. What he’s saying is that in an audio of this quality you would expect it to match up about 90% with a voice exemplar (sample of the person’s voice) to be considered a forensic match. Since it doesn’t match 90% he’s saying that with what he considers to be a reasonable degree of scientific certainty, it is NOT Zimmerman
You can argue with his conclusion, but that’s what he’s saying
I seem to remember the press reporting weeks ago that the 911 tapes were played for Martin’s father. His father said that the voice screaming for help was not his son’s voice.