AISV 2021: Speaker individuality in phonetics and speech sciences: Speech technology and forensic applications -XVII National Conference of the Italian Association for Speech Sciences University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland, February 4-5, 2021 |
Conference website | https://www.cl.uzh.ch/de/aboutus/events/AISV2021.html |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisv2021 |
Abstract registration deadline | September 30, 2020 |
Submission deadline | September 30, 2020 |
Overview
Research in language sciences typically focuses on the analysis of linguistic systems and on aspects of language variation determined by sociolinguistic parameters such as the geographical and social origin of the speaker or the situational context. Research in speech sciences, on the other hand, is mainly concerned with the dynamics of speech production and perception, so that interspeaker acoustic variability – far from being a disturbance factor or ‘noise’ – may itself constitute an object of inquiry. Moreover, the speaker-specific dimensions of variation are of great relevance in several domains of applied sciences such as speech technologies (e.g., automatic speech and speaker recognition) or forensic phonetics.
Call for papers
This conference provides a forum for discussing and sharing research experiences related to different aspects of speaker individuality which are investigated from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Among the possible research topics we suggest the following:
- Speaker-specific acoustic properties of vowel and consonants (e.g., formants, spectral moments or VOT)
- Speaker-specific acoustic properties of intonational patterns (e.g., the range and median of F0 or particular contours)
- Temporal aspects which contribute to speaker individuality (e.g., articulation and speech rate, rhythm metrics)
- Individual aspects of voice quality (such as creaky or breathy voice) and their acoustic measurements (e.g., harmonics to noise ratio)
- Aspects related to the geographical origin of individual speakers (phonetic features of dialects or regional varieties of standard languages)
- Socio-phonetic aspects of speech variation including gender, age, class or ‘community of practice’
- Effects of voice disguise on speaker individuality and recognition
- Building and using corpora and databases for forensic purposes
- Qualitative and quantitative requirements for acoustic stimuli used as forensic evidence
- Audio enhancement techniques for improving speaker recognition in noisy signals
- Statistical models and tools for the analysis of speaker individuality and speaker recognition
Following the tradition of AISV conferences, the programme will also include open sessions on any aspect of speech science research.
Abstract submission
Authors are invited to submit abstracts by next 20 September. Abstracts can be written in Italian or in English and should be limited to 1000 - 1500 words (references excluded). The whole abstract, including references and figures should not exceed two A4 pages. Abstracts should be anonymous and submitted in PDF format only through EasyChair. Both oral and poster presentations are possible: Authors may express their preference (the final decision will be taken, however, by the organising committee).
Invited speakers and Round table
Kirsty McDougall, University of Cambridge (UK) https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/dr-kirsty-mcdougall
Helen Fraser, University of New England (New South Wales – Australia) https://helenfraser.com.au
At the end of the conference a round table on Current trends and issues in forensic phonetics research will be moderated by Peter French (University of York, UK). Round table participants are: Volker Dellwo (University of Zurich, CH), Helen Fraser(University of New England, Australia), Michael Jessen (BKA Wiesbaden, D), Kirsty McDougall (University of Cambridge, UK) and Luciano Romito (Università della Calabria, I).
Satellite Workshop
The conference will be preceded by a half-day satellite workshop on automatic and semi-automatic procedures of speaker recognition, held by Michael Jessen (Bundeskriminalamt, Wiesbaden – Germany).
For further information: https://www.cl.uzh.ch/de/aboutus/events/AISV2021.html