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Below you find the final programme for IAFPA 2014. Abstracts can be downloaded individually by clicking on the link in the title. A pdf including local information, the programme and all abstracts in one single document can be downloaded here.

Sunday (31. August 2014)

Conference warm-up from 6 pm at Cafe Grande (Limmatquai 118). We will meet in front of Cafe Grande for a one hour walk to the lake and back. The Cafe will open for us by 19:00 hrs and will serve a selection of drinks and light snacks (see Conference Booklet for more details). Participants arriving late can join us at the Grande at any time (until 22 hrs).

Monday (1. September 2014)

	8:50 - 9.25	Welcome notes	- Organizers - Forensic Institute Zurich - IAFPA
Oral I	Chair: Dominic Watt
	9:25 - 9:50	Tina Cambier and Jos Vermeulen	Gestalt: an undeniable part of human voice perception
	9:50 - 10:15	Kirsty McDougall	Listeners’ perception of voice similarity in Standard Southern British English versus York English
	10:15 - 10:40	Jitka Vaňková, Tomáš Bořil, and Radek Skarnitzl	Stability of short-term voice quality parameters in GSM
	10:40 - 11:10	Coffee break
Oral II	Chair: Gea de Jong
	11:10 - 11:35	Helen Fraser	Issues in the presentation of indistinct covert recordings as evidence in criminal trials
	11:35 - 12:00	Allen Hirson, Lucy Dipper and Johan Verhoeven	‘Easy straight upsay hospey’ – the forensic decryption of Pig Latin
	12:00 - 12:25	Nathan Atkinson	Earwitness Identification: Is Just Once Enough?
	12:25 - 12:50	Maartje Schreuder and Thomas Meyer	Earwitness speaker identification and physiological responses
	12:50 - 14:00	Lunch
Poster I	14:00 - 16:00	Hanna S. Feiser and Christoph Draxler	Perceptual voice similarity of related speakers: telephone and microphone recordings
		Barbara Baumeister and Florian Schiel	The influence of f0 on the perception of alcoholic intoxication
		Dario Brander	Phonetic characteristics of hesitation vowels in Swiss German and their use for forensic phonetic speaker identification.
		Kostis Dimos, Lei He and Volker Dellwo	An investigation of the rhythmic acoustic differences between normal and shouted voices
		Nancy Renning	The Influence of Background Music on Perceived Speaker’s Age
		Natalie Fecher and Dominic Watt	Speaker discrimination based on ‘facewear speech’
		Pedro Gómez, Luis M. Mazaira, Agustín Álvarez, and Eugenia San Segundo	Dysphonic Voice Detection for Speakers' Biometry
		Lei He and Volker Dellwo	Inter-speakers variability of intensity levels across syllables
		Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly and Volker Dellwo	Testing the effect of dialect imitation on suprasegmental temporal features
	15:30 - 16:00	Coffee (will be served during poster session)
Oral III	Chair: Kirsty McDougall
	16:00 - 16:25	Almut Braun, Jens Sommer, and Andreas Jansen	Feasibility of acoustic testing with fMRI for speaker recognition experiments
	16:25 - 16:50	Erica Gold and Peter French	An exercise in calculating numerical likelihood ratios and the practicalities of their implementation
	16:50 - 17:15	Oscar Forth and Anil Alexander	Content Comparison and Analysis (COCOA) of Contemporaneously Recorded Audio Material
	17:15 - 17:40	Ewald Enzinger and Geoffrey Stewart Morrison	A demonstration of the evaluation of forensic evidence under conditions reflecting those of an actual forensic-voice-comparison case
IAFPA	17:40 - open end	Committee meetings (members only)	- Professional Conduct Committee - Executive Committee - Research Committee (rooms will be announced here)

Tuesday (2. September 2014)

Oral IV	Chair: Ingrid Hove
	9:00 - 9:25	Michael Jessen	Comparing MVKD and GMM-UBM applied to a corpus of segmented vowels in German
	9:25 - 9:50	Anil Alexander, Oscar Forth and Neil Yager	Zooplots for Speaker Recognition with Tall and Fat Animals
	9:50 - 10:15	Jessica Wormald and Georgina Brown	Speaker profiling: An automatic method?
	10:15 - 10:40	Timo Becker, Gaelle Jardine, Yosef Solewicz and Stefan Gfrorer	Automatic Voice Comparison Performance in Forensic Casework
	10:40 - 11:10	Coffee
Oral V	Chair: Anil Alexander
	11:10 - 11:35	Dominic Watt, Sarah Kelly, and Carmen Llamas	Ratings of ‘threat’ and ‘intent’ by listeners exposed to neutrally-worded utterances in five languages
	11:35 - 12:00	Volker Dellwo and Dario Brander	Speaker and dialect effects in the dynamics of speech temporal characteristics
	12:00 - 12:25	Martin Duckworth and Kirsty McDougall	Assessing the consistency of disfluency measures in characterising speakers
	12:25 - 12:50	Sophie Wood, Vincent Hughes, and Paul Foulkes	Filled pauses as variables in speaker comparison: dynamic formant analysis and duration measurements improve performance
	12:50 - 14:00	Lunch
Poster II	14:00 - 16:00	Jonas Lindh, Joel Åkesson and Julia Forsberg	Effect of the ‘DF’ effect on AVC
		Ewald Enzinger	Mismatch compensation in the evaluation of evidence under conditions reflecting those of an actual forensic-voice-comparison case
		Gordana Varošanec-Škarić, Iva Pavić and Gabrijela Kišiček	Comparison of similarity and dissimilarity indices between speech samples in filtered and non-filtered conditions for the speakers of the Croatian language
		Vincent Hughes, Erica Gold, Paul Foulkes, Peter French, Philip Harrison, Louisa Stevens, Colin Aitken and Tereza Neocleous	Modelling features for forensic speaker comparison
		Marie-José Kolly, Adrian Leemann and Volker Dellwo	Speaker-individual rhythmic features in both L1 and L2 speech: implications for forensic voice comparison
		Richard Rhodes	Cognitive bias in forensic speech science
		Carola Schindler, Eva Reinisch and Jonathan Harrington	Perceptual speaker discrimination based on German consonants
		David van der Vloed and Jos Bouten	NFI-FRITS: A forensic speaker recognition database
		Ingrid Hove, Adrian Leemann, Marie-Jose Kolly, Volker Dellwo, Jean-Philippe Goldman, Ibrahim Almajai and Daniel Wanitsch	Using the smartphone application ‘Voice Äpp’ to collect speech population data: implications for forensic phonetics
	15:30 - 16:00	Coffee (will be served during poster session)
IAFPA	16:00 - 17:30	Annual General Meeting (IAFPA members only)
Social Program	19:00 - open end	Conference Dinner	BBQ Garden Party at the Institute of Comparative Linguistics at Plattenstrasse 54 (8032 Zurich).

Wednesday (3. September 2014)

Oral VI	Chair: Adrian Leemann
	9:00 - 9.25	Erica Gold and Vincent Hughes	Correlations within- and between-speech parameters in Southern Standard British English
	9:25 - 9:50	Willlemijn Heeren, David van der Vloed, and Jos Vermeulen	Exploring long-term formants in bilingual speakers
	9:50 - 10:15	Eugenia San Segundo Fernández and Pedro Gómez-Vilda	Forensic voice comparison using glottal parameters in twins and non-twin siblings
	10:15 - 10:40	Ingrid Hove and Volker Dellwo	The effects of voice disguise on f0 and on the formants
	10:40 - 11:10	Coffee break
Oral VII	Chair: Tina Cambier Langeveld
	11:10 - 11:35	Federal Office for Migration, Switzerland, LINGUA	Nativespeakerhood: A Subject Matter Revisited
	11:35 - 12:00	Roland Kehrein and Gea de Jong-Lendle	„www.regionalsprache.de (REDE)“ – a dialectological GIS for linguists and forensic phoneticians
	12:00 - 12:25	Adrian Leemann and Marie-José Kolly	Assessing the potential of crowdsourced ‘Dialäkt Äpp’ speech data for forensic phonetics
	12:25 - 12:50	Gea de Jong-Lendle, Sarmad Hussain and Francis Nolan	Individual speaker characteristics of creaky phonation: a comparative study of English and Urdu

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