Search Results - "Hughes, Vincent"

Animal life in the shallow subseafloor crust at deep-sea hydrothermal vents by Bright, Monika, Gollner, Sabine, de Oliveira, André Luiz, Espada-Hinojosa, Salvador, Fulford, Avery, Hughes, Ian Vincent, Hourdez, Stephane, Karthäuser, Clarissa, Kolar, Ingrid, Krause, Nicole, Le Layec, Victor, Makovec, Tihomir, Messora, Alessandro, Mitchell, Jessica, Pröts, Philipp, Rodríguez-Ramírez, Ivonne, Sieler, Fanny, Sievert, Stefan M., Steger, Jan, Tinta, Tinkara, Winter, Teresa Rosa Maria, Bright, Zach, Coffield, Russel, Hill, Carl, Ingram, Kris, Paris, Alex

“…It was once believed that only microbes and viruses inhabited the subseafloor crust beneath hydrothermal vents. Yet, on the seafloor, animals like the giant…”
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Sample size and the multivariate kernel density likelihood ratio: How many speakers are enough? by Hughes, Vincent

“…•Effects of sample size on likelihood ratios tested.•Robust calibration dependent on the number of development speakers.•Validity dependent on the number of…”
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Balancing validity and reliability as a function of sampling variability in forensic voice comparison by Wang, Bruce Xiao, Hughes, Vincent

“…•Three generations of ASR systems evaluated for validity and reliability.•Advanced systems yield better validity but not necessarily higher…”
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Analysis of forced aligner performance on L2 English speech by Williams, Samantha, Foulkes, Paul, Hughes, Vincent

“…•Forced alignment using general American english model and dictionary on L2 english.•Accuracy on L2 varieties is comparable but less consistent than on…”
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The effect of sampling variability on systems and individual speakers in likelihood ratio-based forensic voice comparison by Wang, Bruce Xiao, Hughes, Vincent, Foulkes, Paul

“…•System performance does not provide the insights of individual behavior.•Considerable fluctuation is observed in individual behavior with more features…”
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Establishing typicality: A closer look at individual formants by Hughes, Vincent

“…Research into the forensic performance of individual formants has offered considerable evidence to support the traditional acoustic-phonetic view that whilst…”
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The relevant population in forensic voice comparison: Effects of varying delimitations of social class and age by Hughes, Vincent, Foulkes, Paul

“…•LRs based on different definitions of the relevant population computed.•Relevant population varied according to socio-economic class and age.•Strength of…”
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Questions, propositions and assessing different levels of evidence: Forensic voice comparison in practice by Hughes, Vincent, Rhodes, Richard

“…This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion about the distinction between observations and propositions in forensic inference, with a specific focus on…”
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Examining correlations between phonetic parameters: Implications for forensic speaker comparison by Gold, Erica, Hughes, Vincent

“…The research presented in this paper builds upon a previous pilot study (Gold and Hughes 2012). This paper explores the correlation structure of speech…”
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Corrigendum to ‘Questions, propositions and assessing different levels of evidence: Forensic voice comparison in practice’ by Hughes, Vincent, Rhodes, Richard

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Changing Words and Sounds: The Roles of Different Cognitive Units in Sound Change by Sóskuthy, Márton, Foulkes, Paul, Hughes, Vincent, Haddican, Bill

“…This study considers the role of different cognitive units in sound change: phonemes, contextual variants and words. We examine /u/‐fronting and /j/‐dropping…”
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Style variability in disfluency analysis for forensic speaker comparison by Harrington, Lauren, Rhodes, Richard, Hughes, Vincent

“…Disfluencies are a natural part of speech, often going unnoticed by both speaker and listener. Recent research on disfluency profiles (McDougall and Duckworth…”
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Speaker-specificity in speech production: The contribution of source and filter by Hughes, Vincent, Cardoso, Amanda, Foulkes, Paul, French, Peter, Gully, Amelia, Harrison, Philip

“…•Considerable independence of acoustic measures of source and filter.•Both source and filter encode speaker-specific information.•Degree of source-filter…”
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Issues and opportunities: The application of the numerical likelihood ratio framework to forensic speaker comparison by Gold, Erica, Hughes, Vincent

“…Abstract Across forensic speech science, the likelihood ratio (LR) is increasingly becoming accepted as the logically and legally correct framework for the…”
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Strength of forensic voice comparison evidence from the acoustics of filled pauses by Hughes, Vincent, Wood, Sophie, Foulkes, Paul

“…This study investigates the evidential value of filled pauses (FPs, i.e. um, uh) as variables in forensic voice comparison. FPs for 60 young male speakers of…”
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Consensus on validation of forensic voice comparison by Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart, Enzinger, Ewald, Hughes, Vincent, Jessen, Michael, Meuwly, Didier, Neumann, Cedric, Planting, S., Thompson, William C., van der Vloed, David, Ypma, Rolf J.F., Zhang, Cuiling, Anonymous, A., Anonymous, B.

“…•Forensic-voice-comparison systems that output numeric likelihood ratios.•Guidance on how to validate in the context of a case.•Developed via a consensus…”
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effect of speaker sampling in likelihood ratio based forensic voice comparison by Xiao Wang, Bruce, Hughes, Vincent, Foulkes, Paul

“…Within the field of forensic voice comparison (FVC), there is growing pressure for experts to demonstrate the validity and reliability of the conclusions they…”
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Variability in analyst decisions during the computation of numerical likelihood ratios by Hughes, Vincent, Foulkes, Paul

“…This study assesses the extent to which likelihood ratios (LRs) are affected by analyst decisions regarding the number of reference speakers, number of tokens…”
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Assessing the effects of accent-mismatched reference population databases on the performance of an automatic speaker recognition system by Watt, Dominic, Harrison, Philip, Hughes, Vincent, French, Peter, Llamas, Carmen, Braun, Almut, Robertson, Duncan

“…Automatic Speaker Recognition (ASR) systems are designed to provide the user with statistics relating to the similarity of two or more speech samples and to…”
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A Comparison of Enalapril with Hydralazine–Isosorbide Dinitrate in the Treatment of Chronic Congestive Heart Failure by Cohn, Jay N, Johnson, Gary, Ziesche, Susan, Cobb, Frederick, Francis, Gary, Tristani, Felix, Smith, Raphael, Dunkman, W. Bruce, Loeb, Henry, Wong, Maylene, Bhat, Geetha, Goldman, Steven, Fletcher, Ross D, Doherty, James, Hughes, C. Vincent, Carson, Peter, Cintron, Guillermo, Shabetai, Ralph, Haakenson, Clair

“…CHRONIC heart failure is a syndrome characterized by left ventricular dysfunction, reduced exercise tolerance, impaired quality of life, and markedly shortened…”
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