With over 100 specialists in its R&D team, speech database access a possible growth area Michael Khitrov, president, Speech Technology Center, was interviewed by Bill Meisel in late May.

Extracting intelligible speech from a recorded murk of echoes and murmured words, or determining if a cassette audio tape reputedly made by Osama bin Laden is the real deal: These are just some of the challenges of forensic audio. Like its video cousin, forensic audio is an investigative science that works to clarify, filter, and clean up recorded speech and other sounds.

Marisa T. Dery (Tamar Mastering, USA)  participated in the AES 33rd International Conference Denver, USA and won second place in the contest in audio enhancement.STC -a forensic software company from Russia-  was the winner of the contest.

Tom Owen (Owl Investigation) demonstrated STC software EdiTracker at 2006 AES/NY Picnic