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Conferences

Xu, C., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., Welch, P., Wormald, J., Kelly, F. and van der Vloed, D. (2023) Impact of mismatches in long-term acoustic features on different-speaker ASR scores. International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics Conference, Zurich, Switzerland. 9-12 July 2023. [Slides]

Hughes, V., Wormald, J. Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Welch, P., Xu, C., Kelly, F. and van der Vloed, D. (2023) Effects of vocal variation on the output of an automatic speaker recognition system. International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics Conference, Zurich, Switzerland. 9-12 July 2023. [Slides]

Hughes, V., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Wormald, J., Xu, C., van der Vloed, D. and Kelly, F. (2022) Person-specific automatic speaker recognition: understanding the behaviour of individuals for applications of ASR. International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics Conference, Prague, Czechia. 10-13 July 2022. [Poster]

Hughes, V., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Wormald, J., Xu, C., van der Vloed, D. & Kelly, F. (2022) Person-specific automatic speaker recognition: understanding the behaviour of individuals for applications of ASR. UK Speech Conference, University of Edinburgh, 5-6 September 2022.

Foulkes, P. (2022) Forensic speech science needs forensic phonetics. ISAPh 2022 (4th International Symposium on Applied Phonetics), Lund, Sweden, 14-16 September 2022. (KEYNOTE)

Publications

Wang, B. and Hughes, V. (2022) Reducing uncertainty at the score-to-LR stage in likelihood ratio-based forensic voice comparison using automatic speaker recognition systems. Proceedings of Interspeech. Incheon, Korea. pp. 5243-5247.

Invited talks

Hughes, V. (2022) Forensic voice comparison at the intersection of linguistics and automatic speaker recognition. Invited talk at the Voice ID Conference, Zurich, Switzerland. 4-6 July 2022.

Harrison, P. (2022) Speech and audio forensics. Invited talk for Institute of Acoustics. 14 September 2022.

Hughes, V., Gully, A. and Harrison, P. (2022) Interpretability in forensic voice comparison systems. Invited talk at Data Discoveries, University of York. 14 September 2022.

Hughes, V. (2022) Why uncertainty matters in forensics... (and phonetics and sociophonetics and just about everything else). Invited talk at Lancaster Phonetics Lab. 18 October 2022.

Hughes, V. (2022) Why are certain voices difficult to recognise? Invited talk at Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics Research Seminar. 17 November 2022.