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IAFPA 16th Annual Conference - 2007 - Plymouth, UK
Abstracts & Presentations
Abstracts are available in PDF format by clicking on '(Abs)' next to the title of the paper. Presentations are also available for most papers in either PDF or PowerPoint format by clicking on '(Pres)'. It is hoped that they will be provided for all papers shortly. Some presentations are contained in ZIP archives if they include extra audio or video files. The file size has been noted if it is larger than 1 MB.
Sunday 22nd July 2007
15:00 - 18:00: Registration - Desmond Tutu Centre Foyer (coffee, tea & biscuits available)
17:00 onwards: Committee Meetings - Executive Committee in Old Chapel Studio or Room 7. Meeting of RC and PCC to be in rooms 7 or 15 at other times either on Sunday or before AGM.
19:00 - 21:00: Reception - Desmond Tutu Centre Foyer
Monday 23rd July 2007
09:00 - 09:30: Registration - Desmond Tutu Centre Foyer
9:30: Scientific Programme Begins - All papers presented in the Old Chapel Studio, Desmond Tutu Centre. The poster and demonstration sessions (listed at the end) will be in the Desmond Tutu Centre Foyer.
09:30 - 10:00: Official Opening of the Conference
Opening Remarks: Angelika Braun, Chair of IAFPA & Peter French, President of IAFPA
Welcome to The College of St Mark & St John: Maggie Cooper, Dean of School of Health
Practical Information: Martin Duckworth, Conference Organiser
First Session - Chair: Anders Eriksson
10:00 - 10:30: The speaker discriminating power of within-speaker behaviour: a study based on vowel formants (Abs) (Pres - 1.5 MB)
Gea de Jong, Kirsty McDougall, Francis Nolan, & Toby Hudson
10:30 - 11:00: The reliability of formant measurements in high quality audio data - the effect of agreeing measurement procedures (Abs) (Pres - 3.0 MB)
Martin Duckworth, Kirsty McDougall, Gea de Jong & Linda Shockey
11:00 - 11:30: Break - Desmond Tutu Centre (Foyer): Tea Coffee, Water, Biscuits
Second Session - Chair: Angelika Braun
11:30 - 12:00: Formant Measurement Errors: Preliminary Results from Synthetic Speech (Abs) (Pres - 12.3 MB)
Philip Harrison
12:00 - 12:30: Formant pattern estimation guided by cepstral compatibility (Abs) (Pres - 1.1 MB)
Frantz Clermont, Philip Harrison & Peter French
12:30 - 13:00: Distinguishing speakers using formant dynamics in read and spontaneous speech: a study of British English /u:/ (Abs) (Pres)
Kirsty McDougall
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch - Delegates to arrange self. There are on site venues
Third Session - Chair: Anil Alexander
14:00 - 14:30: The Influence of Intra-Speaker Variability in Automatic Speaker Identification (Abs) (Pres)
Timo Becker
14:30 - 15:00: On TFSR (semi)automatic systems supportability: novel instruments for analysis and compensation (Abs) (Pres)
Frencesco Borchi, Monica Carfagni & Matteo Nunziati
15:00 - 15:30: Developments in automatic speaker recognition at the BKA (Abs) (Pres)
Michael Jessen, Franz Bross & Stefan Gfroerer
15:30 - 16:00: Break - Desmond Tutu Centre (Foyer): Cream tea (plus coffee and water)
Fourth Session - Chair: Kirsty McDougall
16:00 - 16:30: Perceptual testing and speech synthesis in the analysis of disputed utterances (Abs)
Allen Hirson, David Howard & Elizabeth McClelland
16:30 - 17:00: Speak up please: towards stimulating vocal effort changes in the recording of suspect material (Abs) (Pres)
Michael Jessen & Marianne Jessen
17:00 - 17:30: Auditory speaker identification of foreign language material (Abs) (Paper not presented)
Rodmonga Potapova & Elena Loseva
Poster - Cross linguistic voice recognition between Korean and English (Abs)
Heui-Hyun Kim
Demonstration - Semi-Automatic Aligning of Swedish Forensic Phonetic Phone Speech in Praat using Viterbi Recognition and HMM (Abs)
Jonas Lindh
Tuesday 24th July 2007
Fifth Session - Chair: Michael Jessen
09:30 - 10:00: Fundamental frequency and the alternative baseline in forensic speaker identification (Abs)
Jonas Lindh
10:00 - 10:30: Speaker identification based on the statistical analysis of f0 (Abs) (Pres - 6.1 MB)
Pavel Labutin, Sergey Koval & Andrey Raev
10:30 - 11:00: Beyond the long term mean: multivariate likelihood ratio-based FSR using F0 distribution parameters (Abs) (Pres - 2.5 MB)
Yuko Kinoshita, Shunichi Ishihara & Phil Rose
11:00 - 11:30: Break - Desmond Tutu Centre (Foyer): Tea, coffee, water & Danish pastries
Sixth Session - Chair: Tina Cambier-Langeveld
11:30 - 12:00: F0 statistics for Spontaneous British English (Abs) (Pres - 3.4 MB)
Toby Hudson, Gea de Jong, Kirsty McDougall, Philip Harrison & Francis Nolan
12:00 - 12:30: Modern methods of automation of speech records authenticity in forensic investigation (Abs) (Pres - 3.7 MB)
Sergey Koval, E Landa & Polina Zubova
12:30 - 13:00: Increasing speech intelligibility by denoising: what can be achieved? (Abs) (Pres - 2.5 MB)
Jan Rademacher, Joerg Bitzer & Joerg Houpert
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch - Delegates to arrange self. There are on site venues
Seventh Session - Chair: Peter French
14:00 - 14:30: Effects of different types of face covering on speech acoustics and intelligibility: some preliminary observations (Abs) (Pres - 2.9 MB)
Damien Donnelly, Carmen Llamas & Dominic Watt
14:30 - 15:00: Hot Issues in the Field of "Language Analysis" (Abs) (Pres)
Tina Cambier-Langeveld
15:00 - 15:30: Break - Desmond Tutu Centre (Foyer): Tea, coffee, water & biscuits
Eighth Session - Chair: Martin Duckworth
15:30 - 17:00: IAFPA Annual General Meeting
Conference Dinner
18:45: Buses depart for Royal Western Yacht Club, Plymouth
19:30: Pre dinner cocktail
20:00: Conference Dinner
23:00: Buses depart for hotels
Wednesday 25th July 2007
Ninth Session - Chair: Paul Foulkes
09:30 - 10:00: Variability of rhoticity and the realisation of rhotics in Punjabi-English Bilinguals: a forensic perspective (Abs)
Allen Hirson & Nabiah Sohail
10:00 - 10:30: Phonetic correlates of accent authenticity in voice disguise (Abs) (Pres)
Sara Neuhauser & Adrian Simpson
10:30 - 11:00: Detection and recognition of voice disguise (Abs) (Pres)
Patrick Perrot, Celine Preteux, Sophie Vasseur & Gerard Chollet
11:00 - 11:30: Break - Desmond Tutu Centre (Foyer): Tea, coffee, Danish pastries
Tenth Session - Chair: Allen Hirson
11:30 - 12:00: Phonetic details of non-pulmonic stop release in German: inter- and intraindividual variation (Abs) (Pres)
Adrian Simpson
12:00 - 12:30: Secondary stress: A Speaker-Specific Characteristic? (Abs) (Pres)
Sylvia Moosmüller
12:30 - 13:00: Closing Ceremony: President & Chair of IAFPA
13:00: Conference ends