Abstract
In March and April 2003 two contestants and an accomplice were tried and convicted of attempting to defraud the program of the million pound prize. Their strategy involved the contestant, after having been asked the questions, 'thinking aloud' about possible answers whilst an accomplice in the studio guided him towards the correct one by a system of coughing. Determining from the recordings of the program where in the studio the coughing was coming from started in knowing the positions of microphones and routeing of microphone feeds. From the different microphone feeds, the questioned coughs were identified and compared across the recordings. This served as basis in pinpointing the cougher.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 14-19 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Acoustics Bulletin |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2005 |