re: #30 Adam, Eve and Steve

Missed this: turns out Tom Owen, the expert cited to prove that it was not Zimmerman who screamed, also thinks that GZ said “punks”:

So every guy with audio enhancement software hears his own thing. “Coons”, “cold”, now “punks”. That’s why I thought the claims of enhancement were dubious from the start and had more to do with fetishization of computers, forgetting about the “garbage in, garbage out” principle. Also, yes, turns out those innocuous filters cleaning up noise do change things enough to change the interpretation of a whole word.

I know that there’s a lot of “noise,” but there is software that shows specific digital signals for specific phonemes. It should only be a matter of what people “hear” after they’ve cleaned out the noise.

I’m surprised that we haven’t seen any such analysis.