IKAR Lab: Audio/speech signal analysis

Overview

IKAR Lab is an excellent solution for speech signal analysis. Being the most popular audio forensic lab in the world it gives you powerful speech enhancement and audio restoration opportunities, sophisticated speech analysis capabilities, precise noise cancellation options and numerous editing tools. IKAR Lab was designed specifically for the extraction and in-depth analysis of voice parameters and is now installed in the most advanced forensic labs all over the world.

Our goal was to create a product with an optimal potential for audio processing that could meet all possible forensic needs and stand any intricate challenge.

Why choose IKAR:

• powerful environment for noise cancellation and speech signal enhancement
• transcription of low quality recordings
• speaker identification
• biometric voice database management system
• authenticity analysis of analog or digital recordings

Features

1. Match and catch

   Create, monitor and manage your voice database. You can now utilize all the recordings made during suspect interviews and investigative reports to create database of known or suspect voices in a passive manner and quickly identify or eliminate speakers under investigation.

2. Analyze this

   Forensic analysis of audio recordings is now faster and easier. The combination of powerful tools for enhanced speech processing, audio visualization, segmentation, noise reduction and text transcription is now at your disposal as a unique software kit of great potential and value. Plus, you get two additional plug-ins that accomplish authenticity and identification analysis that all in all gives you an opportunity to provide clear files and text transcriptions at trials.

3. What's that noise?

   Be it an accident, criminal investigation or 911call it is important for speech to be clear and easily understandable to ensure no vital information is lost. Solving the toughest tasks of speech enhancement and noise reduction, including real-time processing , we combined all up-to-date noise filtering algorithms in one product . Ikar Lab is also equipped with full-fledged noise-processing server that can be controlled remotely via web page in multiuser mode.

4. Recording speakers

   Whenever there's need to take voice samples of speakers under investigation indoors or in the field our software and hardware solution is perfect for both. Stationary double microphone device with software interfaced to your database and a pocket shockproof voice recorder will embrace all needs and tasks to create your own voice sample database.

5. Support

   Audio forensic training is a part of audio lab efficiency work. STC courses are designed to provide the student with detailed theoretical and hands on training on the suite of audio forensic products and methods used for different types of examination.

The structure of IKAR Lab

Support

Training: Forensic acoustics. Basic course

Duration: 5 days

• Introduction into forensic audio
• The theory of noise cancellation
• Sound Cleaner: audio filters and their parameters. Practical application.
• The theory of speech production
• SIS II software interface, equipment testing, sound editing, processing and analysis
• Forensic voice identification: theory and practice
• Authentication
• Making report