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Our first P&P Seminar talk of the year was given by second-year PhD student Alice Paver, who presented research from the IVIP & her PhD on ‘Voice memory and the role of pitch distribution in a population’. Looking forward to more fascinating talks this Michaelmas term!

Less than a month left to apply the fully funded #PhD #studentship about speaker attribution at the University of Cambridge, co-supervised by the Forensic Voice Centre. ⏲️ Closing date: 3rd December 2024: bit.ly/48n0kR9 Cambridge Uni Phonetics & Phonology Lab Cambridge University

Get those applications in to come and do a PhD in the lab, co-supervised by The Forensic Voice Centre 🎧

A great end to the week with a spooky Halloween lab formal at Lucy Cavendish College! 🎃👻

Thanks so much for coming back Zhāng Pàn 章盼, it was an honour to host you! We hope you enjoyed all the tricky questions 😉

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Today’s seminar was given by MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit researcher Dr Tobias Goehring, who presented ground breaking research on ‘restoring the sense of sound with cochlear implants’. The team trained AI systems to try & decode speech in noisy environments for cochlear implant users. Thanks Tobias!

Yesterday lab members went for drinks to celebrate and say goodbye to Maddy, who is starting her new job at King's College London on Monday! We will miss your wisdom Maddy!

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Congratulations to lab member & PhD student Chloe Patman on her publication in JASA Express Letters, coauthored by Eleanor Chodroff. The paper investigates human vs machine speech recognition in different adverse listening conditions.

Lots of lab members are presenting their work at Language Sciences #CLS2024 today! To find out more go and read their posters online: cambridge.org/engage/coe/pub…

A lovely afternoon exploring Cambridge from Kings College Chapel roof! Thank you so much to lab member Kerri for showing us around 🍂☀️

Could your accent make you sound guilty? A new study from MMLL Cambridge Jesus College Nottingham Trent University shows that British people still associate accents perceived as ‘working-class’ with criminal behaviour. Alice Paver from Cambridge Uni Phonetics & Phonology Lab explains 👇

Read the full story: bit.ly/3E1k4yU

Thrilled to say that our paper on accent bias in forensic contexts is finally out, and you can read it here: frontiersin.org/journals/commu… It’s the first in a series of studies from IVIP with @WrightDW Natalie Braber & Nik Pautz looking at what makes voices sound more guilty.

Lab member Alice Paver’s paper in Frontiers is out today, and is garnering some interest in the press!

We’ve had loads of coverage in the media, which is really exciting! On Friday I was on BBC Radio 5 Live and LBC talking about our research. We’ve also had coverage in BBC News here: bbc.com/news/articles/…

See the below thread for lots of exciting media coverage of this study about accent prejudice in forensic contexts from IVIP, conducted by Alice Paver @WrightDW Natalie Braber & Nik Pautz Nottingham Trent University Cambridge University MMLL Cambridge Language Sciences

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… "Accent prejudice maps onto societal prejudice". I'm pleased to have contributed some thoughts to this great article on accent bias, but not pleased (or surprised) to read the accounts of people feeling held back by or mocked for their accent.