Category: News
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Event Summary – Linguistics in the Pub panel (online experiments)
I recently spoke at a panel session for Linguistics in the Pub with my friends (who are also colleagues) Chloé Diskin-Holdaway and Olga Maxwell (pictured above). The three of us as a team have published some research about Indian English and about Australian English (Chloé and Debbie, with Penelope Schmidt). Details of the Linguistics in […] -
Publication summary – “Acoustic Injustice”
Helen and I recently published an article called Acoustic injustice: The experience of listening to indistinct covert recordings presented as evidence in court. The reason for the title is that the paper appears in The Acoustics of Justice: Law, Listening, Sound, a special issue of the journal Law, Text, Culture edited by James Parker, Sara Ramshaw and […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/language-forensics/2021/10/04/publication-summary-acoustic-injustice
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Research Report – How textual priming can undermine legal safeguards intended to protect juries from misleading transcripts
The Hub had four presentations at the recent virtual IAFPA (International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics) conference – you can read a general summary about that conference in another blog post here. This current post is all about research carried out by Dr. Yuko Kinoshita from the Australian National University, in collaboration with Helen […] -
Research report – Assessing the role of automatic methods for the transcription of indistinct covert recordings
In the Hub, we find that we are very often asked about how the problem of what is said in indistinct covert recordings can be solved using computational methods. In our new research we show that the way things currently stand, computational methods are not suitable for a range of reasons – transcription by humans […] -
Event Summary – International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics Conference
The Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence took part (virtually) in a conference run by The International Association of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics. It was hosted by the Phonetics team at Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany), from August 23-August 25, 2021. Our feature image is of Marburg, where the conference was hosted; image is from the […] -
Research Report – Forensic audio in context: a study in perceptual phonetics
This is a post by Conor Clements who did his Honours thesis with me (Debbie Loakes) last year. Over the course of 2020, I ran an experiment for my honours thesis on the topics of forensic transcription and the effects of priming and enhancing on perception of indistinct audio. My experiment followed on from an […] -
Event Summary – Linguistics in the Pub
On Wednesday April 28 2021, I led a discussion at Naughton’s, a lovely old “pub” opposite The University of Melbourne on Royal Parade. This was a Linguistics in the Pub event. Impressively, Linguistics in the Pub has been running for 10 years now. You can read about Linguistics in the Pub here and you can […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/language-forensics/2021/05/30/event-summary-linguistics-in-the-pub
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Event Summary – Perspectives on Transcription in Criminal Justice (symposium)
The Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence recently took part in the Perspectives on Transcription in Criminal Justice symposium, which was held online on Thursday March 11. The event was run by the SILC team (Centre for Spoken Interaction in Legal Contexts) within the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics. Around 130 people logged in […] -
Debbie Loakes: My forensic origin story
How I became interested in Forensic Linguistics and Forensic Phonetics I studied my undergraduate degree in Linguistics at Monash University. I remember looking at the handbook (which was a huge printed document in those days!) and wanting to know more about forensic linguistics – curiosity about this subject is what got me into studying linguistics […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/language-forensics/2021/04/01/debbie-loakes-my-forensic-origin-story
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Capturing Talk
The Hub will be participating in a Frontiers Research Topic called ‘Capturing Talk: The Institutional Practices Surrounding the Transcription of Spoken Language‘ with colleagues in the UK and the Netherlands. About the Research Topic Across a range of institutional settings, ‘practitioners’ and ‘professionals’ are eliciting and capturing spoken talk from ‘clients’ (Sarangi 1998), transcribing that […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/language-forensics/2021/03/01/capturing-talk
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Symposium: Perspectives on transcription in criminal justice
Thursday 11 March 2021 (morning in the UK, evening in Eastern Australia). A free online symposium examining the production and use of transcripts in criminal justice. -
A research hub is launched
The Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence was officially launched on Friday, 30th October 2020, by Professor Russell Goulbourne, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. Although it had to take place over zoom due to the pandemic, the launch was a very happy occasion. Please enjoy the video below (9 […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/language-forensics/2021/01/07/a-research-hub-is-launched
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