The Estate claimed they hired the best and the second best audiologists in the country to carry out the analyses. Um, ok, who are they? We've never gotten that answer.
Now, I am curious, based purely on the pronunciation, which serious professional linguist on Earth would claim that the singer on the 3 infamous songs has the same characteristics of speech as Michael Jackson? For sure, neither the best nor the second best audiologist/linguist would ever claim that. Those who believe the Estate/Sony Music that they hired the best and the second best audiologists/linguists believe either a huge lie or those audiologists/linguists had been bribed to deny clear facts, or they simply are not the best or the second best ones in the country.
Back in the day, I carried out the analyses of the speech and came to the same conclusions as Dr. Papcun (whom I don't know personally), so if there are other linguists around here, go ahead, carry out the analysis and come back with your conclusions.
I'm giving you an assignment, to all MJ fans who believe that MJ sings on those three infamous songs:
Find me a single song in the whole MJ's catalogue, name any song in which MJ does not pronounce the letter "t" in the middle of the words such as "better", "waiting/waitin' ", "starting/startin' ", "etc. Go ahead, hunt, then come back and share what you have found out.