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Automatic speech recognition and the transcription of indistinct forensic audio: how do the new generation of systems fare? by Loakes, Debbie

“…This study provides an update on an earlier study in the “Capturing Talk” research topic, which aimed to demonstrate how automatic speech recognition (ASR)…”
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Does Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Have a Role in the Transcription of Indistinct Covert Recordings for Forensic Purposes? by Loakes, Debbie

“…The transcription of covert recordings used as evidence in court is a huge issue for forensic linguistics. Covert recordings are typically made under…”
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Sociophonetic Variation in Vowel Categorization of Australian English by Loakes, Debbie, Clothier, Josh, Hajek, John, Fletcher, Janet

“…This study involves a perceptual categorization task for Australian English, designed to investigate regional and social variation in category boundaries…”
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Acoustic Analysis of Vowels in Australian Aboriginal English Spoken in Victoria by Loakes, Debbie, Gregory, Adele

“…(1) Background: Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) is a variety known to differ in various ways from the mainstream, but to date very little phonetic analysis…”
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Acoustic injustice: The experience of listening to indistinct covert recordings presented as evidence in court by Fraser, Helen, Loakes, Debbie

“…One of the most important acoustic experiences in court is that of listening to covert recordings. Covert recordings are conversations captured by telephone…”
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Editorial: Capturing talk: the institutional practices surrounding the transcription of spoken language by Fraser, Helen, Haworth, Kate, Deamer, Felicity, Loakes, Debbie, Richardson, Emma, Komter, Martha

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They Talk Muṯumuṯu: Variable Elision of Tense Suffixes in Contemporary Pitjantjatjara by Wilmoth, Sasha, Defina, Rebecca, Loakes, Debbie

“…Vowel elision is common in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara connected speech. It also appears to be a locus of language change, with young people extending…”
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Investigating the interaction between voice quality and plosive production in Australian Englishes: Acoustic features of vowel-/t/ sequences by Loakes, Debbie, McDougall, Kirsty, Gregory, Adele

“…A number of researchers have posited a link between voice quality and consonant production (e.g., Keating and Esposito 2007). This work investigates the…”
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A preliminary investigation of the acoustic factors impacting decision making in speaker attribution by Loakes, Debbie, Fraser, Helen, McDougall, Kirsty

“…Attributing utterances to speakers in a good quality recording of clear speech might seem to be a simple and straightforward task, yet transcribers have been…”
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Voice quality in Australian English by Loakes, Debbie, Gregory, Adele

“…This study is an acoustic investigation of voice quality in Australian English. The speech of 33 Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal English speakers) is…”
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Variability in cross-language and cross-dialect perception. How Irish and Chinese migrants process Australian English vowels by Diskin-Holdaway, Chloé, Loakes, Debbie, Clothier, Josh

“…We investigate how three adult groups - experienced L2 English listeners; experienced D2 (second dialect) listeners; and native L1/D1 listeners - categorise…”
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Acoustic injustice: The experience of listening to indistinct covert recordings presented as evidence in court by Helen Fraser, Debbie Loakes

“…One of the most important acoustic experiences in court is that of listening to covert recordings. Covert recordings are conversations captured by telephone…”
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Acoustic injustice: The experience of listening to indistinct covert recordings presented as evidence in court by Helen Fraser, Debbie Loakes

“…One of the most important acoustic experiences in court is that of listening to covert recordings. Covert recordings are conversations captured by telephone…”
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Attitudes towards Indian English among young urban professionals in Hyderabad, India by Maxwell, Olga, Diskin‐Holdaway, Chloé, Loakes, Debbie

“…Despite extensive work on the description of Indian English(es), only limited attention has been paid to attitudes towards the variety among its speakers. This…”
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New insights into /el/-/æl/ merging in Australian English by Schmidt, Penelope, Diskin-Holdaway, Chloé, Loakes, Debbie

“…A merger exists in Australian English in which /el/ is realized as [æl] for a number of speakers, particularly in Victoria. There have also been some…”
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Enhancing the left edge: The phonetics of prestopped sonorants in Australian languages by Butcher, Andrew, Loakes, Debbie

“…The consonant systems of Australian Aboriginal languages are very similar to one another but very different from those of most other languages of the world…”
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Book Review: English on Croker Island: The synchronic and diachronic dynamics of contact and variation by Loakes, Debbie

“…English on Croker Island: The synchronic and diachronic dynamics of contact and variation by Robert Mailhammer. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton (hardcover), 2021…”
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