Conference Programme

 

Sunday, July 23

15.00–18.00

Registration.

Outside the Bläckfisken conference hall at Hotel Panorama

19.00–21.30

Reception. Göteborg University. Renströmsgatan 6

 

Monday, July 24, Bläckfisken, Hotel Panorama

09.00–09.30

Registration. Outside Bläckfisken

09.30–09.55

Official opening of the conference

Peter French, Chairman of the IAFPA

09.55–10.10

Welcome and practical information: Anders Eriksson

First Session    Chair: Anders Eriksson

10.10–10.40

Introducing DyViS: a dynamic study of British English for forensic purposes

Francis Nolan, Kirsty McDougall and Gea de Jong

10.40–11.10

Current methods in forensic speaker identification:  results of a collaborative exercise

Tina Cambier-Langeveld

11.10–11.40

Some research trends on the domain of forensic phonetics in the Centre of Fundamental and Applied Speechology

Rodmonga K. Potapova, Elena V. Loseva and Olga N. Statsenko

11.40–13.40

L U N C H

Second Session    Chair: Angelika Braun

13.40–14.10

Adding a new dimension to the analysis of audio tapes by visualising magnetic features

Dagmar Boss

14.10–14.40

An open-standard file format for forensic audio

Anil Alexander and J. Keith McElveen

14.40–15.10

A Database of technical and aerodynamic sounds in aviation

Päivikki Eskelinen-Rönkä

15.10–15.30

Coffee Break

Third Session    Chair: Andrzej Drygajlo

15.30–16.00

Preliminary F0 statistics and forensic phonetics

Jonas Lindh

16.00–16.30

Using creaky voice index in forensic phonetics – is it valid and is it reliable?

Tuija Niemi-Laitinen

Fourth Session    Chair: Peter French

16.30–18.00

IAFPA Annual General Meeting

 

 

 

Tuesday, July 25, Bläckfisken, Hotel Panorama

Fifth Session    Chair: Jens-Peter Köster

09.00–09.30

Forensic voice line-ups: a study of intentional vs. incidental memory

Angelika Braun

09.30–10.00

Perceptual in-set speaker identification using neutral speech and speech under Lombard effect

Ayako Ikeno and John H.L. Hansen

10.00–10.30

Identification of familiar voices in disguised speech

Jessica Clark and Paul Foulkes

10.30–10.50

Coffee Break

Sixth Session    Chair: Sylvia Moosmüller

10.50–11.20

Variability of formant measurements – Part 2

Philip Harrison

11.20–11.50

Acoustic-articulatory interpretations of professional imitations of “hallå” in three Swedish dialects

Frantz Clermont and Elisabeth Zetterholm

11.50–12.20

Characterisation of individuals’ formant dynamics using polynomial equations

Kirsty McDougall

12.20–14.00

L U N C H

Seventh Session    Chair: Paul Foulkes

14.00–14.30

Derivation of a transfer function for Imaging Polarimetry used in magneto optical investigations of audio tapes in authenticity investigations

Jos Bouten

14.30–15.00

Evaluating the performance of state-of-the-art language recognition technology in a forensic context

Jos Bouten

15.00–15.30

Articulatory avoidance

Sylvia Moosmüller

15.30–16.00

Coffee Break

Eighth Session    Chair: Francis Nolan

16.00–16.30

Voiceprints in the United States – Why they won’t go away

Reva Schwartz

16.30–17.00

Charlatanry and fraud – an increasing problem for forensic phonetics?

Anders Eriksson

17.00–18.00

General discussion

19.30–24.00

Conference Dinner, Restaurant Hamngatan

 

 

 

Wednesday, July 26, Bläckfisken, Hotel Panorama

Ninth Session    Chair: Hermann Künzel

09.30–10.00

Voice Onset Time as a parameter for identification of bilinguals

Claire Gurski

10.00–10.30

The influence of dialects in automatic speaker recognition systems

Antonio Moreno, Marta García-Gomar, Emilio Martínez and Javier Castaño

10.30–11.00

On sentence content, speaker familiarity and dialect

Elisabeth Zetterholm, Erik J. Eriksson and Kirk P.H. Sullivan

11.00–11.30

Diachronic change as a source of speaker idiosyncrasy: a study of Standard Southern British English monophthongs

Francis Nolan, Gea de Jong, Kirsty McDougall, and Toby Hudson

11.30–12.00

Closing ceremony