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URGENT - Is my recording a fake?

Mar 27, 2010 1:02AM PDT

What software can analyze an audio clip and determine whether and where it was edited, or determine whether it was altered in any other way? I need something that will hold up to legal scrutiny and I believe I have very little time. Thx

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You described the problem well.
Mar 27, 2010 4:06AM PDT

Any good lawyer will find an expert that will discredit your non-fake recording. As such you know you can't win that round.

Is there a way you can avoid the battle altogether?
Bob

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The good lawyer did the faking!
Mar 27, 2010 4:15AM PDT

Actually, I have an audio clip of a deposition that I am certain was doctored because several questions and answers are simply missing from it. I don't know if that was done intentionally, but I just want to be able to prove that there was a splice or join here or there so that we can get others to come clean.

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Software isn't the answer.
Mar 27, 2010 4:20AM PDT

It's finding your "expert" to comment on the recording. Yes they may pull up some digital screen with graphs of the content to show the click or glitch along with the audio but software alone never stands up to the fire or other expert slamming that software.
Bob