Student Conference Prizes

Student conference prizes Conference attendees award 2 student presentation awards for excellent oral and poster presentations: in Zurich in 2023, these were awarded to Daniel Dennan Lee for his oral presentation with Kirsty McDougall, Finnian Kelly and Anil Alexander entitled: PASS (Phonetic Assessment of Spoofed Speech): Towards a human-expert-based framework for spoofed speech detection. The poster award was won by Lois Fairclough for her poster (with Georgina Brown and Christin Kirchhübel) entitled: Taking a closer look at formants for the purpose of voice comparison: a meta-analysis of research literature. We are very grateful to Oxford Wave Research for sponsoring a separate prize for talks on acoustics and automatic voice analysis. This was won by Linda Gerlach (with Finnian Kelly, Kirsty McDougall and Anil Alexander) for her talk entitled: A convincing voice clone? Automatic voice similarity assessment for synthetic speech samples. ...
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How to deal with voice quality in forensic phonetics: a feasibility study towards a simplified perceptual protocol

Title: "How to deal with voice quality in forensic phonetics: a feasibility study towards a simplified perceptual protocol" Abstract: The proposed investigation comprises two stages. As a first step, a survey will be conducted among international forensic experts with questions specifically related to voice quality (VQ). This survey is intended to inform current practices in the assessment of VQ and to detect issues and difficulties, as found in real casework. In a second step, different pilot experiments will be tested, and eventually a simplified computer-based perceptual protocol for the evaluation of VQ will be proposed. The main goal is to provide a simplified, yet reliable and validated, perceptual protocol that could be used by the international community of forensic phoneticians when they have to describe a speaker in terms of his/her VQ, and/or when required to compare two or more voices using an auditory approach.  Name of Principal Applicant:           Dr. Eugenia San Segundo Fernández Name(s) of Other Applicants: Prof. Dr. Anders Erikssson Prof. Dr. Plinio Barbosa...
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IAFPA conference in Istanbul, Turkey – 2019

The IAFPA conference in Istanbul attracted attendees from no less than 19 different countries. IAFPA thanks Burcu Onder, the Council of Forensic Medicine and the sponsors for welcoming us all in the wonderful transcontinental city of Istanbul. Congratulations for the best student presentation award go to: Julien Plante-Hébert Congratulations for the best student poster award go to: Linda Gerlach There are two offers to host IAFPA in 2020: the first is from Gea de Jong-Lendle (Marburg, Germany), the second is from Colleen Kavanagh (Ottawa, Canada)...
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IAFPA conference in Huddersfield, UK, 2018

The 2018 conference was held in Huddersfield, UK, and it was a huge success.  Thanks to Erica Gold, Sula Ross, and Kate Earnshaw for their offer to organise the meeting. News updates from the conference: - We have new members on the Executive Committee (Anna Bartle) and Research Committee (Georgina Brown and Vincent Hughes) - The Student Prize for the best presentation at the 2018 conference went to Lucy Jackson (@LuceJackson on twitter) from the University of Huddersfield for her talk “Investigating Bradford speakers' ability to imitate a SSBE accent: Implications for forensic phonetics”(in collaboration with Erica Gold) - Our new student representatives are Sula Ross and Kate Earnshaw. - Our next annual conference will be held in Istanbul, Turkey – details will be forthcoming....
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Research grant applications welcome – 2018/19

IAFPA is inviting applications for  (max. £1,300) research grants. The current year's suggested (but by no means mandatory) topics are: large scale data analysis validation of methods, and female speakers The deadlines for applications will be as follows: submission of proposals: Oct 8, 2018 reviews by Research Committee returned to applicants: Oct 22 resubmission of applications (for which resubmission has been requested): Nov 5 notification of awards: by Nov 12 Please make your application using the form provided to members by the secretary. The instructions are given on the form itself. If you have any questions about the application and review process, please do not hesitate to email Vica Papp @ viktoria.papp@canterbury.ac.nz...
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IAFPA conference in Split, 2017

The 26th annual conference of IAFPA was held in Split, Croatia on 09-12 July 2017. It boasted an amazing setting and a host of excellent papers, including the winning student paper from Elliott Land (Uni. Huddersfield) on recognition of voices by lay listeners using laughter.  Attendees were treated to a fantastic dinner and live music on the island of Brač, following a beautiful sunset boat journey.  Thanks to the organisers for such a rewarding conference. The 2018 conference will be held in Huddersfield....
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