Audio Forensics Expert Witnesses

San Francisco, California

Acoustics, Video - Audibility, Audio Technology, Patent & copyright (audio), Musicology, Acoustic measurement, Digital Authentication, Video enhancement, Forensic Musicology, Warning Signals, Audio enhancement, Rebuttal, Accident analysis: audibility, Speech Intelligibility, body worn camera videos, Audio Forensics

Expert consultant in the areas of acoustics; video and audio evidence recordings; audio patent infringement analysis; acoustic measurement; speech intelligibility and warning signal audibility; human factors and psychoacoustics; musicology and copyright infringement; voice comparison; and recorded gunshot analysis. Authentication, speech enhancement, signal identification and analysis of audio-video recordings in legal cases. Body worn camera, dash cam, security camera, cell phone analysis. Research scientist, psychoacoustics, NASA 1988-2025; Consultant; Salter Associates, 1996-current. Consultation in over 1000 audio-video and acoustic forensic cases since 1987. Expert testimony in over 100 cases in court or depositions, in U.S. Federal and State courts including the United States International Trade Commission (USITC), and courts in Canada and International arbitration panels (World Bank-ICSID).

Brentwood, Tennessee

Video, Audio - video forensics, video enhancement, video analysis, forensic video, audio forensics, audio enhancement, audio analysis, forensic audio, voice forensics, voice enhancement, image forensics, image enhancement

Principle Forensics is a national media forensics laboratory. We recover, authenticate, enhance, and analyze all types of recorded evidence, including video, audio, and digital images. And we back all our work with experienced, highly trained, expert testimony. Nick Barreiro, BAC, AVFA, DIVRT, is a certified Audio Video Forensic Analyst and the founder of Principle Forensics.  He is an FBI-trained member of the Digital Imaging and Video Recovery Team.  Mr. Barreiro works with attorneys representing plaintiffs and defendants in civil or criminal matters in which audio, video, or image evidence plays a key role.  He has extensive experience on the witness stand and has enhanced and analyzed digital media from simple slip-and-fall cases and minor traffic accidents to complex investigations such as homicides and officer-involved shootings.  He has testified 100s of times in criminal cases, civil cases, arbitrations, and depositions. Mr. Barreiro holds a bachelor’s degree in Communic...

The Woodlands, Texas

Digital Forensics, Technology - Computer forensics, Cellular forensics, Audio forensics, Video forensics, E-Discovery, Expert reports, Intellectual property, Data exfiltration, Trade secrets, Spoliation, Mobile device forensics, Cloud forensics, Metadata analysis, Electronically Stored Information (ESI), Deleted data recovery, Photo forensics (w/AI detection)

Jerry Hatchett is the Founder and President of Red Forensic, a digital forensics and electronic discovery consulting firm serving attorneys, corporations, governmental entities, and courts throughout the United States. He has worked full-time in digital forensics since 2003 and is retained as both a consulting and testifying expert in civil and criminal litigation involving electronically stored information (ESI), computers, mobile devices, cloud data, forensic audio, and forensic video. Mr. Hatchett has been engaged in matters involving trade secret theft, intellectual property disputes, departing employees, data exfiltration, spoliation of evidence, electronic intrusion allegations, HIPAA matters, antitrust litigation, breach of contract, employment disputes, bankruptcy, fraud, embezzlement, criminal investigations, and complex commercial litigation. His work frequently involves forensic acquisition, reconstruction of user activity, authentication of digital evidence, detection...