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14th Anuual Conference - 2005 - Marrakesh, Morocco

Wednesday 3rd August 2005

17:00 - 20:00: Registration
17:00 - 20:00: Cocktail party

Thursday 4th August 2005

09:00 - 09:30: Registration
09:30 - 10:00: Official opening
Chairman of IAFPA Peter French - Welcome Word

First session - Chair: Hermann Künzel

10:00 - 10:35: The speaker discriminating power of the final fall: spontaneous speech
Gea de Jong(1), Jill House(2), Nicola Cook(1) and Alexia Young(1)
(1) City University, London, UK
(2) University College, London, UK

10:35 - 11:10: Effect of vocal effort and read-spontaneous dichotomy on average and variability of fundamental frequency
Michael Jessen, Olaf Köster and Stefan Gfroerer
Bundeskriminalamt, Wiesbaden, Germany

11:10 - 11:30: Coffee break

Second session - Chair: Paul Foulkes

11:30 - 12:05: Visual acoustic versus aural perceptual speaker identification in a closed set of disguised voices
Jonas Lindh
Göteborg University, Sweden

12:05 - 12:40: Spectral characteristics of shouted speech
Allen Hirson & Amrita Mahal
City University, London, UK

12:40 - 14:30: Lunch

Third session - Chair: Jens-Peter Köster

14:30 - 15:05: Lay-witness voice description and identification: consideration of shouting, pitch and accent
Peter French and Philip Harrison
JP French Associates, York, UK

15:05 - 15:40: Identification of voices in shouted speech
Helen Blatchford(1) and Paul Foulkes(1, 2)
(1) University of York, UK
(2) JP French Associates, York, UK

15:40 - 16:00: Coffee break

Fourth session - Chair: Michael Jessen

16:00 - 16:35: Agnitio System
Emilio Martinez, Antonio Moreno
Agnitio S.L., Madrid, Spain.

16:35 - 17:05: A methodology for the creation of a forensic recognition data base to handle mismatched conditions
Anil Alexander and Andrzej Drygajlo
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

17:05 - 17:40: Visualization of Magnetic Features by Means of Crystals - Recent Developments and Experiences
Dagmar Boss, Landeskriminalamt, München, Germany

17:40 - 18:40: Committee Meetings

Friday 5th August 2005

Fifth session - Chair: Hermann Künzel

09:00 - 09:35: On the forming of phonetic data bases for foreign speaker identification (regarding the interfered speech)
Yuri Romashkin and Yuri Abramov
State Linguistics University, Moscow, Russia

09:35 - 10:05: Forensic speaker identification evidence and the "Prosecutor's fallacy"
Peter French
JP French Associates, York, UK

10:05 - 10:25: Coffee break

Sixth session - Chair: Peter French

10:25 - 11:00: Variability of formant measurements
Philip Harrison
JP French Associates, York, UK

11:00- 11:35: Normalization the vocal tract length for the comparison of formant frequencies
Sylvia Moosmüller
Acoustics Research Institute, Vienna, Austria

11:35 - 12:45: IAFPA Annual General Meeting
12:45 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 00:00: Coffee break
- City guided tour
- Conference dinner

Saturday 6th August 2005

Seventh session - Chair: Sylvia Moosmüller

09:00 - 09:35: Can bilinguals speak either language properly?
Frederika Holmes
City University, London, UK

09:35 - 10:05: Voice onset time comparisons of French-English/English-French bilinguals
Claire Gurski
Western Ontario University, Canada

10:05 - 10:25: Coffee break

Eighth session - Chair: Dagmar Boss

10:25 - 11:00: Intra and inter-dialectal elements of hesitation phenomena in Moroccan spoken languages, a global regional study
Mamoun Alaoui
Acoustics Laboratory of the Royal Gendarmerie, Rabat, Morocco

11:00 - 11:35: Idiosyncratic patterns of filled pauses
Nadja Tschäpe(1), Jürgen Trouvain(2), Dominik Bauer(2) and Michael Jessen(1)
(1) Bundeskriminalamt, Wiesbaden, Germany
(2) Phonetik-Büro, Trouvain, Saarbrücken, Germany

11:35 - 12:05: A forensic-phonetic study of articulation rate in German
Michael Jessen
Bundeskriminalamt, Wiesbaden, Germany

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