Research
Exploring individual speaker performance within a forensic automatic speaker recognition system
Poster Presentation at the UK and Ireland Speech Workshop 2024, Cambridge, UK.
Voice quality in telephone speech: Comparing acoustic measures between VoIP telephone and high-quality recordings
Poster Presentation at INTERSPEECH 2024, Kos Island, Greece.
Contributions of acoustic measures to the classification of laryngeal voice quality in continuous English speech
Poster Presentation at the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPHS23), Prague, Czechia.
Automatic speaker recognition with variation across vocal conditions: a controlled experiment with implications for forensics
Proceedings of Interspeech 2023. Dublin, Ireland.
Impact of the changes in long-term acoustic features upon different-speaker ASR scores
Presentation at the 31st International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics conference (IAFPA 2023), Universität Zürich, Switzerland.
Cross-dialectal perspectives on Mandarin neutral tone
Invited talk at Phonetics & Phonology Seminar, University of Cambridge
Identity in prosody: An introduction to Plastic Mandarin
Invited talk at Languages of China Workshop, All Souls College, University of Oxford
Person-specific Automatic Speaker Recognition
The ESRC-funded project “Person-specific automatic speaker recognition : understanding the behaviour of individuals for applications of ASR” is a three year project running from 2022 to 2025 led by Dr Vincent Hughes (PI), Professor Paul Foulkes (CI) and Dr Philip Harrison in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York. The project involves collaboration with the Netherlands Forensic Institute and Oxford Wave Research.
Revisiting Neutral Tone in Mandarin Broadcast News Speech
Presentation at Speech Prosody 2020
Trisyllabic Phrase Intonation in Plastic Mandarin Using Polynomial Modelling
Presentation at the ICPHS 2019