From here to utility - melding phonetic insight with speech technology

Abstract

It is the twelfth-century in Japan, and a nobleman has died a violent death. A magistrate is charged with establishing the identity of the killer and delineating the sequence of events leading up to the murder. During the formal hearing several witnesses are called to testify ‐ the victim’s wife, the accused (a notorious bandit), a woodsman and the victim himself (through a spirit medium). Each witness provides a singular account of the man’s death. They agree on but a single fact ‐ that the nobleman is, indeed, dead. How he died and by whose hand are very much in dispute.