Research

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Exploring individual speaker performance within a forensic automatic speaker recognition system

Poster Presentation at the UK and Ireland Speech Workshop 2024, Cambridge, UK.

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.

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.