Anna Kvicalova
Biographic Data
| ID | 1462230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Kvicalova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Kvicalova |
| SIGNATURE | KVICALOVA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4603-2388 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Criminal voices: The transfer of sound-based expertise in Cold War forensics
The article explores the transnational circulation of sound-based expertise that came together in the establishment of audio forensics in Cold War Poland and Czechoslovakia. It is the first to study the Polish Phonoscopy Lab, the first ever audio forensic police department, founded in 1963 to carry out original research on speaker identification and distorted speech. It shows the complexity of sound dissection science behind the Iron Curtain, whe…
Sluch má dějiny: Obrat Ke Zvuku a Případ Hluché Reformace
The paper introduces sound studies as a field of interdisciplinary historical research and demonstrates how the history of sound and hearing can be explored in the historical record, using the example of the early Calvinist Reformation in Geneva. It argues that hearing difficulties were the central theme of early Calvinism that significantly shaped the character of its religious and material culture, and proposes to study the Reformation as a pro…
Sound on the Quiet: Speaker Identification and Auditory Objectivity in Czechoslovak Fonoscopy, 1975-90
Audio technologies that allowed eavesdropping on private conversations were a key tool in Cold War-era surveillance practices. In 1975, in the midst of the Cold War, a criminal police agency called the Fonoscopy Department was established in Czechoslovakia's capital, Prague, to explore the forensic potential of sound analysis for speaker identification. This article reveals for the first time that, aside from the well-known Czechoslovak secret po…
Forensic voices: Cultures of sonic detection and identification in the West
This introduction to the special issue "Forensic voices: Cultures of sonic detection and identification in the West" explains the notion of "forensic voices," positions this in scholarly literature on sound in forensic practices, and introduces the individual contributions
Audio forensics behind the Iron Curtain: From Raw Sounds to Expert Testimony
This essay investigates the construction of forensic audio expertise in the legal and security system of Communist Czechoslovakia and shows that the contested nature of speaker identification and sound-based objectivity contributed to the formulation of probabilistic claims in forensics. It explores the practices of the Department of Fonoscopy: a unique research laboratory of audio forensics that systematically examined the spectrographic, lingui…
Other than Ethical: STS-Oriented Approaches to Communist Audio Forensics
This article considers the benefits of constructivist approaches to the history of audio forensics. It is argued that science and technology studies (STS) open up a new avenue of research on historical uses of sound recordings in the communist security apparatus and offer a perspective that is considerably different from the mainstream historiographical treatment of the state audio surveillance. This claim serves as a basis for discussing the Cze…
Hearing Difference in Calvin’s Geneva: From Margins to Center
Sluch má dějiny: Obrat Ke Zvuku a Případ Hluché Reformace
The paper introduces sound studies as a field of interdisciplinary historical research and demonstrates how the history of sound and hearing can be explored in the historical record, using the example of the early Calvinist Reformation in Geneva. It argues that hearing difficulties were the central theme of early Calvinism that significantly shaped the character of its religious and material culture, and proposes to study the Reformation as a pro…
Sound on the Quiet: Speaker Identification and Auditory Objectivity in Czechoslovak Fonoscopy, 1975-90
Audio technologies that allowed eavesdropping on private conversations were a key tool in Cold War-era surveillance practices. In 1975, in the midst of the Cold War, a criminal police agency called the Fonoscopy Department was established in Czechoslovakia's capital, Prague, to explore the forensic potential of sound analysis for speaker identification. This article reveals for the first time that, aside from the well-known Czechoslovak secret po…
Hearing Difference in Calvin’s Geneva: From Margins to Center
Other than Ethical: STS-Oriented Approaches to Communist Audio Forensics
This article considers the benefits of constructivist approaches to the history of audio forensics. It is argued that science and technology studies (STS) open up a new avenue of research on historical uses of sound recordings in the communist security apparatus and offer a perspective that is considerably different from the mainstream historiographical treatment of the state audio surveillance. This claim serves as a basis for discussing the Cze…
Sound on the Quiet: Speaker Identification and Auditory Objectivity in Czechoslovak Fonoscopy, 1975-90
Audio technologies that allowed eavesdropping on private conversations were a key tool in Cold War-era surveillance practices. In 1975, in the midst of the Cold War, a criminal police agency called the Fonoscopy Department was established in Czechoslovakia's capital, Prague, to explore the forensic potential of sound analysis for speaker identification. This article reveals for the first time that, aside from the well-known Czechoslovak secret po…
Forensic voices: Cultures of sonic detection and identification in the West
This introduction to the special issue "Forensic voices: Cultures of sonic detection and identification in the West" explains the notion of "forensic voices," positions this in scholarly literature on sound in forensic practices, and introduces the individual contributions
Audio forensics behind the Iron Curtain: From Raw Sounds to Expert Testimony
This essay investigates the construction of forensic audio expertise in the legal and security system of Communist Czechoslovakia and shows that the contested nature of speaker identification and sound-based objectivity contributed to the formulation of probabilistic claims in forensics. It explores the practices of the Department of Fonoscopy: a unique research laboratory of audio forensics that systematically examined the spectrographic, lingui…
Sluch má dějiny: Obrat Ke Zvuku a Případ Hluché Reformace
The paper introduces sound studies as a field of interdisciplinary historical research and demonstrates how the history of sound and hearing can be explored in the historical record, using the example of the early Calvinist Reformation in Geneva. It argues that hearing difficulties were the central theme of early Calvinism that significantly shaped the character of its religious and material culture, and proposes to study the Reformation as a pro…
Criminal voices: The transfer of sound-based expertise in Cold War forensics
The article explores the transnational circulation of sound-based expertise that came together in the establishment of audio forensics in Cold War Poland and Czechoslovakia. It is the first to study the Polish Phonoscopy Lab, the first ever audio forensic police department, founded in 1963 to carry out original research on speaker identification and distorted speech. It shows the complexity of sound dissection science behind the Iron Curtain, whe…
Diverse Musicological Studies (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Cold war (2 works) · Computer security (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Acoustics (1 works)