CURRICULUM
VITAE
DR CATRIONA JEAN STOREY-WHYTE
Suite 4, Former Magistrates Court and Police Station, Market Hall Street,
Kington, Herefordshire HR5 3DP, UK, tel: 01544 231 965 (+44); mobile:
0403
809852
(+44);
fax:
01544
231934
(+44);
email:
audiolex@lawyersonline.co.uk
US voicemail and fax: 917 - 477 - 1810
Australia tel: 0408 519 318
website: http://www.audiolex.lawyersonline.co.uk
ENGLAND
1998 - 1999 (current position):
Consultant, AudioLex, Suite 4, Former Magistrates Court and Police Station,
Market Hall Street, Kington, Herefordshire HR5 3DP, UK.
Member of the Professional Conduct Committee of the IAFP (International
Association for Forensic Phonetics)
1990 - 1998:
(summary)
Research Consultant, Speaker Identification Unit, Department of
Linguistics, Monash
University, Melbourne, involved in research and
case work
Teaching Linguistics 1 in the Department of Languages, Interpreting
and Translating at Deakin University, Melbourne
member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Forensic
Linguists.
Consultant, Australian Forensic Services, Canberra, ACT
other consultancies (UK and Australia)
Qualifications
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B.A. (Hons) (in French and Spanish)
Dip. Ed. (La Trobe);
M.A. (Prelim) (in Phonology) (Monash)
M.A. in Linguistics Methodology
(Monash)
Ph.D. (in modern Irish Morphophonology) in Linguistics
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(Monash)
Professional Associations
International Association of Forensic Linguists
International Association for Forensic Phonetics
International Society for the Phonetic Sciences
Law and Literature Association of Australia
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Main Case Work and Experience
I have 10 years' experience in the preparation of forensic linguistic reports
and have prepared or presented evidence in various jurisdictions including:
UK: I have prepared expert witness reports for Magistrates, Crown and
High Court in the UK; I have been consulted as an expert witness on several
hundred occasions.
Australia: various Magistrates' Courts in Victoria, Queensland, NSW and
the ACT, the County and Supreme Courts of Victoria and the District Courts
of New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern
Territory. I have also prepared evidence for the Supreme Courts of Victoria
and the ACT and the Federal Court of NSW, the Royal Commission into the
NSW Police Service, and various tribunals and hearings..
I am consulted by law enforcement agencies including State and Federal
Police throughout Australia; police forces of England; Wales, Scotland and
Northern Ireland; HM Customs and Excise British, the Office of the DPP in
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory; lawyers; the National Crime
Authority; telecommunications companies; the Attorney General's
Department and other agencies, and private companies and individuals on
matters involving the following areas:
speaker identification using auditory, acoustic and text analysis
techniques
transcription (in particular, the transcription of poor quality
recordings)
enhancement of poor quality tape recordings
examination of tape recordings to determine whether or not the tape
has been edited or otherwise interfered with
author identification using text analysis techniques
disguised voice analysis
text analysis in suspected cases of "verballing", forgery, scripting,
coercion and so on
conversation analysis to determine purpose, direction and control
examination of conversation or text for coded references
foreign language analysis using interpreters
response elicitation techniques
response assessment (including assessment of non-native speaker
responses)
voice line ups
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Recent Relevant Conference Papers and Publications
1992 - Forensic Linguistics ANZFSS Conference, Hobart, Australia
1992 - Linguistic Analysis as Evidence of Speaker Identification: Demand and Response
(co-authored with Dr Heather Bowe), Australian Linguistic Society, Sydney. Published
in Eades, D. (ed) 1995 Language in Evidence: Linguistic and Legal Perspectives in
Multicultural Australia, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press
1993 - Auditory Constants in Cases of Disguised Voice International Association of
Forensic Linguists Conference, Bonn, Germany; published in Kniffka, H. (ed) Recent
Developments in Forensic Linguistics Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag
*1993 - Forensic Text Analysis published in The Journal of the Law Institute of Victoria
1994 - Code-Switching and Speaker Identification International Association for Forensic
Phonetics Conference, Cardiff
1994 - The Language of Threats International Conference on Language and Social
Psychology, Brisbane, Australia; also presented to the Law and Literature Association of
Australia Conference, Brisbane. Published in The Journal of Forensic Linguistics
1994 - The Use of Translators and Interpreters in Forensic Speaker Identification ANZFSS
Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
1995 - Foreign Language Speaker Identification International Association for Forensic
Phonetics, Orlando, U.S.A. Published in Morris, M. (ed) (1995) Translation and the Law
Amsterdam: John Benjamins
1995 - The Transcription and Translation of Covert Surveillance Tapes Linguistic
Foundations of Translation Conference, Liverpool
1996 - Translating and Interpreting for Forensic Purposes Federation International de
Traducteurs Conference - Melbourne, Australia
1996 - The Rights of Non-English Speaking Suspects, Victims, Witnesses and Defendants
Conference of Linguistic Rights and Language Legislation, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A.,
published 1998
1996 - A Tale of Two Transcripts International Association for Forensic Phonetics
Conference, Bundeskriminalamt, Wiesbaden, Germany
1996 - KISSing the Jury - Advantages and Limitations of the "Keep it Simple" Principle in
Presenting Expert Evidence International Law and Society Conference, Glasgow.
Published in The Journal of Forensic Linguistics
1996 - The Analysis of Foreign Language Evidence ANZFSS Conference, Sydney, Australia
1997 - Cultural Consideration in the Transcription of Covert Tapes in Vietnamese (cowriter: Uyen Loenwald) International Association for Forensic Phonetics Conference,
Edinburgh
1999 - Transcription - Not just a simple dictation exercise International Association of
Forensic Linguists Conference, Birmingham
1999 - It's a Simple Question - an analysis of the structure and assumptions of questions
during cross-exmination NorthWest Centre for Linguistics Conference, Liverpool, UK
* this paper won the Law Institute of Victoria's 1993 Editorial Committee Prize
I am currently working on a book on Forensic and Court Interpreting and Translating,
and on one on Transcription.
Other research interests include:
masking and distorting characteristics of a range of overt and covert recording
devices, paths
and environments (Initial joint research project with Victoria
Police)
the use of various techniques, including fuzzy logic and artificial neural network
applications, for transcription and tape enhancement
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the development and refinement of methods of foreign language forensic analysis
issues in the training and accreditation of interpreters and translators working
in the forensic and Court contexts
Keywords:
speaker identification, voice identification, transcription, tape
recordings, CD recordings, forensic audio, forensic phonetics,
forensic linguistics, voice evidence, taped evidence,
surveillance, telephone intercepts, wire taps, bugging, transcripts,
evidence, expert witness, expert evidence, text analysis,
authorship, plagiarism, libel, threat, blackmail, fraud, code, coded
message, conspiracy, criminal defense, police, law enforcement,
intellectual property, copyright, voice recognition, voice line-ups,
tape enhancement, tape authentication, tape verification, tape
editing, language, foreign language, second language competence,
comprehension, meaning, linguistic meaning, legal meaning,
readability, cautions, foreign language evidence, translator and
interpreter assessment, legal interpreter training, cross-linguistic
evidence, cross-cultural evidence, voice databases, language
competence, linguistic competence, acoustic signature, acoustic
analysis, noise analysis, crowd noise, medico-legal transcription,
voiceprints, spectrogram, spectrograph
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