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For details regarding oral presentations and posters see the Book of Abstracts (PDF, 4 MB)
The programme is also available for download in PDF format: IAFPA 2023 Programme (PDF, 489 KB)
(S denotes papers and posters eligible for student papers/posters awards)
Evening of Sunday, 9th July 2023 Students: 5:30 PM All attendees: 6:30 PM | Conference Opening and Welcome Drinks @ETH Dozentenfoyer |
Time | DAY 1 (Monday, 10th July 2023) |
8:30-9:00 AM | Registration |
9:00 AM | Conference Welcome |
Special Session 1: Case reports Chair: Andrea Föhlich | |
9:20-9:40 AM | Vincent van Heuven You’re on the wrong track! Some disputed utterances in a two-channel phone tap |
9:40-10:00 AM | Arjan van Dijke Forensic analysis of audio recordings using the Electric Network Frequency method: a case study |
10:00-10:20 AM | Angelika Braun and Jacek Kudera The influence of mismatch conditions on LRs |
10:20-10:40 AM | Mirjam de Jonge and Tina Cambier-Langeveld Blind Grouping: Practical Implementation |
10:40-11:00 AM | Honglin Cao, Sixue Gao, Xiaodong Xu and Yue Zhong Case report: how was the disputed audio recording stopped? |
11.00-11:15 AM | Coffee Break |
11:15-12:15 AM | Plenary 1: Petr Motlicek Speaker verification and identification for criminal investigations and forensics |
12:15-1:15 PM | Lunch |
1:15-2:30 PM | Poster Session 1 |
2:30-4:00 PM | Workshop 1: Tina Cambier-Langeveld and Christin Kirchhübel Let’s talk about Bayes! |
4:00-4:25 PM | Coffee Break |
Oral Session 1: Speaker discrimination Chair: Paula Rinke | |
4:25-4:45 PM | Alice Paver, Kirsty McDougall and Francis Nolan Is pitch equally powerful for the auditory discrimination of low-, mid- and high-pitched voices? |
4:45-5:05 PM | Valeriia Perepelytsia and Volker Dellwo Own-age bias in voice recognition by younger and older adults S |
5:05-5:25 PM | Vincent Hughes, Carmen Llamas and Thomas Kettig The effect of other forensic evidence and expert opinions on lay listener perceptions in voice comparison tasks |
5:25-5:45 PM | Leah Bradshaw, Eleanor Chodroff and Volker Dellwo Exploring the relationship between acoustic-phonetic and perceived voice similarity S |
Evening | Students’ drinks @Frau Gerolds Garten |
Time | DAY 2 (Tuesday, 11th July 2023) | |
9:00-10:30 AM | Workshop 2: Volker Dellwo and Herbert Masthoff Doing Casework | Workshop 3: Philip Harrison and Amelia Gully Breaking the chain: exploring the limits of interpreting audio evidence |
10:30-10:45 AM | Coffee Break | |
Oral Session 2: Methodology Chair: Valeriia Perepelytsia | ||
10:45-11:05 AM | Lauren Harrington and Richard Rhodes Forensic transcription: a survey of expert transcription practices in Europe and North America S | |
11:05-11:25 AM | Helen Fraser, Debbie Loakes, Ute Knoch and Lauren Harrington Towards accountable evidence-based methods for producing reliable transcripts of indistinct forensic audio | |
11:25-11:45 AM | Hanna Ruch, Andrea Fröhlich and Sarah Lim Clustering a large number of unknown voices | |
11:45-12:05 AM | Kirsty McDougall, Pautz Nikolas, Peter Goodwin, Francis Nolan, Katrin Müller-Johnson, Alice Paver and Harriet M.J. Smith An investigation of the effect of warning strength on voice parade performance | |
12:05-1:05 PM | Lunch | |
1:05-2:15 PM | Poster Session 2 | |
Oral Session 3: Spoofed speech Chair: Lois Fairclough | ||
2:15-2:35 PM | Radek Skarnitzl, Tomáš Nechanský and Alžběta Houzar Acoustic, perceptual and ASR analysis of targeted voice manipulations | |
2:35-2:55 PM | Linda Gerlach, Finnian Kelly, Kirsty McDougall and Anil Alexander A convincing voice clone? Automatic voice similarity assessment for synthetic speech samples S | |
2:55-3:15 PM | Daniel Denian Lee, Kirsty McDougall, Finnian Kelly and Anil Alexander PASS (Phonetic Assessment of Spoofed Speech): Towards a human-expert-based framework for spoofed speech detection S | |
3:15-3:30 PM | Coffee Break | |
3:30-4:30 PM | Plenary 2: Prof. Dr. Catalin Grigoras Digital Audio Authentication: Framework, Challenges and Solutions | |
4.30-5.30 PM | Annual General Meeting of the Association | |
7:00 PM | Conference Dinner (BBQ @Campus Irchel) | |
Time | DAY 3 (Wednesday, 12th July 2023) |
9:30-10:30 AM | Plenary 3: Dr. Georgina Brown Synthetic speech is more than a threat |
Oral Session 4: ASR Chair: Linda Gerlach | |
10:30-10:50 AM | Vincent Hughes, Jessica Wormald, Paul Foulkes, Philip Harrison, Poppy Welch, Chenzi Xu, Finnian Kelly and David van der Vloed Effects of vocal variation on the output of an automatic speaker recognition system |
10:50-11:10 AM | Chenzi Xu, Vincent Hughes, Jessica Wormald, Paul Foulkes, Philip Harrison, Poppy Welch, Finnian Kelly and David van der Vloed Impact of the changes in long-term acoustic features upon different-speaker ASR scores |
11:10-11:30 AM | Michael Jessen, Anil Alexander, Thomas Coy, Oscar Forth and Finnian Kelly CON(gruence)-plots for assessing agreement between voice comparison systems |
11:30 – 11:50 AM | Coffee Break |
Special Session 2: Casework practices Chair: Lauren Harrington | |
11:50-12:10 AM | Christin Kirchhuebel, Georgina Brown and Luke Carroll The future of evidential voice analysis in the UK: 'Self-employed' is not a dirty word |
12:10-12:30 AM | Richard Rhodes, Katherine Earnshaw, Bryony Nuttall, Edie Murray and Peter French Casework Procedures & Information Management Strategies |
12:30-12:50 AM | Colleen Kavanagh, Peter Milne and Emily Lawrie-Munro Forensic Voice Comparison in Canada |
12:50-1:10 PM | Isolde Wagner, Dagmar Boss and Vincent Hughes Best Practice Manual for the Methodology of Forensic Speaker Comparison - A Framework Document developed within ENFSI |
1:10-1:30 PM | Closing |
