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Acoustic and perceptual effects of telephone transmission on vowel quality
Lawrence, Sophie; Nolan, Francis; McDougall, Kirsty (2008)This study investigates acoustic and perceptual effects of telephone transmission on the vowels /i:/, /ae/ and /u:/ in Standard Southern British English. The aim of the study was to determine whether the ‘telephone effect’ ... -
The DyViS database: style-controlled recordings of 100 homogeneous speakers for forensic phonetic research
Nolan, Francis; McDougall, Kirsty; de Jong, Gea; Hudson, Toby (2009)The DyViS project (‘Dynamic Variability in Speech: a Forensic Phonetic Study of British English’) at the University of Cambridge has compiled a large-scale database of speech recordings which will be freely available for ... -
Effects of the telephone on perceived voice similarity: implications for voice line-ups
Nolan, Francis; McDougall, Kirsty; Hudson, Toby (2013)This study is relevant to forensic cases where an earwitness claims to be able to remember and identify a voice, and, more generally, to voice recognition. Given that a voice may have been heard over the telephone, it is ... -
Sound change and speaker identity: an acoustic study
de Jong, Gea; McDougall, Kirsty; Nolan, Francis (Springer Nature, 2007) -
Telephone transmission and earwitnesses: performance on voice parades controlled for voice similarity
McDougall, Kirsty; Nolan, Francis; Hudson, Toby (2016-02-01)The effect of telephone transmission on a listener's ability to recognise a speaker in a voice parade is investigated. A hundred listeners (25 per condition) heard 1 of 5 ‘target' voices, then returned a week later for a ...