Conferences – IAFPA

Student Conference Prizes

18th July 202318th July 2023 By Richard Rhodes Comment Closed

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. ...

IAFPA conference in Istanbul, Turkey – 2019

25th July 2019 By Richard Rhodes Comment Closed

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)...

IAFPA conference in Huddersfield, UK, 2018

11th September 2018 By Richard Rhodes Comment Closed

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....

IAFPA conference in Split, 2017

19th July 201719th July 2017 By Richard Rhodes Comment Closed

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....

IAFPA 2017 Conference – Split, Croatia – 9-12 July 2017

22nd February 2017 By Richard Rhodes Comment Closed

The 26th IAFPA Conference will be held in Split, Croatia from 9–12 July 2017. More information can be found on the Conference Website; including the call for abstracts, abstract templates and further information about the conference....

IAFPA 2016 – 25th Anniversary conference held at York – 24-27 July 2016

22nd July 201622nd February 2017 By Richard Rhodes Comment Closed

The 25th annual conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics was held on 24th - 27th July 2016 in York. This year's conference was run as part of the collaboration between the University of York's Department of Language and Linguistic Science and J P French Associates, Forensic Speech and Acoustics Laboratory. The conference marked the 25th Anniversary of the official formation of (the then) IAFP in York in 1991. IAFP blossomed from annual meetings of forensic phonetic practitioners and interested academics in York from 1989 - 1991, with the first official conference meeting taking place in York the year after its inception. These early meetings took place with only a handful of members and papers. Since then, IAFP has grown to over 120 members across both forensic phonetics and acoustics (hence the addition of the latter 'A' to IAFPA). The programme for IAFPA is still online - please see the programme page. The abstract book can be viewed online or can be downloaded here....