Possibilities of Voice and Sounding Oral Speech Research in Relation to Solving Problems of Modern Forensic Science

The tasks of modern forensic science (In particular, identification and diagnostic tasks) in the era of digital globalization, taking into account the internationalization of crime, require new fundamental approaches to studying the parameters of the speech signal for a comprehensive examination of phonograms as part of a phonoscopic examination. A relevant issue for modern forensic science is the study of foreign-language speech in a language that is unfamiliar to the expert, as well as the interpretation of spoken speech in the diagnosis (speech profiling) of individual characteristics. Prosody plays a special role in identifying a person in a language that is unfamiliar to the expert and in profiling a person’s physical characteristics. This work belongs to the field of pragmalinguistics and provides a review of studies that provide data on informative prosodic parameters of speech and their perceptual-auditory correlates. This is necessary for recognizing and identifying a person by voice (including those speaking different languages of operational interest), as well as for obtaining information about the subject’s categorical characteristics that refl ect their immediate reaction, allowing for the objectifi cation of the interpretation of factual data that is signifi cant for the investigation.