Vincent Hughes

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• 2024

  Exploring individual speaker behaviour within a forensic automatic speaker recognition system

  Hughes, V., Xu, C., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Welch, P., Wormald, J. H., Kelly, F. & van der Vloed, D., 21 Jun 2024, Proceedings of Odyssey: The Speaker and Language Workshop.

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• Voice quality in telephone speech: Comparing acoustic measures between VoIP telephone and high-quality recordings

  Xu, C., Wormald, J. H., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., Welch, P., Kelly, F. & van der Vloed, D., 5 Sept 2024, Proceedings of Interspeech. Kos, Greece, p. 1570-1574 5 p.

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• 2023

  Acoustic analysis of L2 English phonemes for language identification

  Williams, S., Hughes, V. & Foulkes, P., 11 Aug 2023, Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).

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• Automatic speaker recognition performance with matched and mismatched female bilingual speech data

  Nutall, B., Hughes, V. & Harrison, P., 24 Aug 2023, Proceedings of Interspeech. p. 601-605 5 p.

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• Automatic speaker recognition with variation across vocal conditions: a controlled experiment with implications for forensics

  Hughes, V., Wormald, J. H., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Kelly, F., van der Vloed, D., Welch, P. & Xu, C., Aug 2023, Proceedings of Interspeech 2023. p. 591-595

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• Automatic speech recognition: system variability within a sociolinguistically homogeneous group of speakers

  Harrington, L. & Hughes, V., 11 Aug 2023, Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).

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• Contributions of acoustic measures to the classification of laryngeal voice quality in continuous English speech

  Xu, C., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V. & Wormald, J. H., 1 Apr 2023, Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). ASSTA

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• Evaluation of a forensic automatic speaker recognition system with emotional speech recordings

  Essery, R., Hughes, V. & Harrison, P., 24 Aug 2023, Proceedings of Interspeech. p. 2568-2572 5 p.

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• Sensitivity of x-vectors and automatic speaker recognition scores to vocal variation

  Wormald, J. H., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., Kelly, F., van der Vloed, D. & Xu, C., 1 Apr 2023, Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). ASSTA

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• 2022

  Eliciting and evaluating likelihood ratios for speaker recognition by human listeners under forensically realistic channel-mismatched conditions

  Hughes, V., Llamas, C. & Kettig, T., 2022, Proceedings of Interspeech. ISCA-INST SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC, p. 5238-5242 5 p.

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• Just listen: describing phonetic variation of the word just

  Hughes, V., 2022, Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Conference on Speech Science and Technology (ASSTA). ASSTA, p. 226-230 5 p.

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• Reducing uncertainty at the score-to-LR stage in likelihood ratio-based forensic voice comparison using automatic speaker recognition systems

  Wang, X. & Hughes, V., 2022, Proceedings of Interspeech. p. 5243-5247 5 p.

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• 2021

  A comparison of the accuracy of Dissen and Keshets's (2016) DeepFormants and traditional LPC methods for semi-automatic speaker recognition

  Coy, T., Hughes, V., Harrison, P. & Gully, A., 2 Jun 2021, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2021.

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• System performance as a function of calibration methods, sample size and sampling variability in likelihood ratio-based forensic voice comparison

  Wang, X. & Hughes, V., 2 Jun 2021, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of Interspeech 2021.

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• 2020

  Correlating cepstra with formant frequencies: implications for phonetically-informed forensic voice comparison

  Hughes, V., Clermont, F. & Harrison, P., 23 Oct 2020, Proceedings of Interspeech 2020. p. 1858-1862 5 p.

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• Effects of formant settings and channel mismatch on semi-automatic systems in forensic voice comparison

  Hughes, V., Harrison, P. T., Foulkes, P., French, J. P. & Gully, A. J., 2020, Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). p. 3080-3084

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• Investigating the forensic applications of global and local temporal representations of speech for dialect discrimination

  Bradshaw, L., Hughes, V. & Chodroff, E., May 2020, Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020.

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• 2019

  Forensic voice comparison using long-term acoustic measures of voice quality

  Cardoso, A., Foulkes, P., French, J. P., Gully, A. J., Harrison, P. T. & Hughes, V., 12 Feb 2019, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).

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• The effect of score sampling on system stability in likelihood ratio based forensic voice comparison

  Wang, X., Hughes, V. & Foulkes, P., 12 Feb 2019, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). p. 3065-3069

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• 2018

  The individual and the system: Assessing the stability of the output of a semi-automatic forensic voice comparison system

  Hughes, V., Harrison, P. T., Foulkes, P., French, J. P., Kavanagh, C. & San Segundo Fernandez, E., 2018, Proceedings of Interspeech 2018.

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• 2017

  Mapping across feature spaces in forensic voice comparison: the contribution of auditory-based voice quality to (semi-)automatic system testing

  Hughes, V., Harrison, P. T., Foulkes, P., French, J. P., Kavanagh, C. & San Segundo Fernandez, E., 30 May 2017, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of Interspeech 2017. Stockholm, Sweden

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• What is the relevant population? Considerations for the computation of likelihood ratios in forensic voice comparison

  Hughes, V. & Foulkes, P., 30 May 2017, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of Interspeech 2017. Stockholm, Sweden

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• 2016

  Formant dynamics and durations of um improve the performance of automatic speaker recognition systems

  Hughes, V., Foulkes, P. & Wood, S., 2016, Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Conference on Speech Science and Technology (ASSTA). University of Western Sydney, Australia

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• Holistic perception of voice quality matters more than L1 when judging speaker similarity in short stimuli.

  San Segundo Fernandez, E., Foulkes, P. & Hughes, V., Dec 2016, Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Conference on Speech Science and Technology (ASSTA). University of Western Sydney, Australia..

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• 2015

  Front-end approaches to the issue of correlations in forensic speaker comparison

  Hughes, V. & Gold, E. A., 2015, Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

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• HASR to AHSR

  French, P., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V. & San Segundo Fernandez, E., 2015, The 24th Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA), Leiden, Netherlands.

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• Long term measures of the resonating vocal tract: establishing correlation and complementarity

  French, P., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., San Segundo Fernandez, E. & Stevens, L. C., 2015, The 24th Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA), Leiden, Netherlands. p. 1-2 2 p.

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• The vocal tract as a biometric: output measures, interrelationships, and efficacy

  French, P., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., San Segundo Fernandez, E. & Stevens, L. C., 2015, Proceedings of ICPhS 2015: 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. University of Glasgow, 5 p. (ICPhS Proceedings; vol. 18).

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• Word-level distributions and structural factors codetermine GOOSE fronting

  Soskuthy, M., Foulkes, P., Haddican, W., Hay, J. & Hughes, V., 2015, Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow

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• 2014

  Regional variation and the definition of the relevant population in likelihood ratio-based forensic voice comparison using cepstral coefficients

  Hughes, V. & Foulkes, P., Dec 2014, Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology . Hay, J. & Parnell, E. (eds.). University of Canterbury, New Zealand, p. 24-27 (Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology; vol. 15).

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• 2013

  Establishing typicality: a closer look at individual formants

  Hughes, V., 2013, Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA - ICA 2013). Montreal, Canada, Vol. 19.

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