I am going to be contributing to the special event titled "Speaker Comparison for Forensic and Investigative Applications II" at Interspeech 2016, held on September 10 at 10:00 am in the Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco.

I am also presenting a paper on likelihood ratio calculation in acoustic-phonetic forensic voice comparison at Interspeech on Friday 9 at 2:00 pm in Room Seacliff BCD.

Geoff Morrison and I are running a Multi-laboratory evaluation of forensic voice comparison systems under conditions reflecting those of a real forensic case (forensic_eval_01).

There is increasing pressure on forensic laboratories to validate the performance of forensic analysis systems before they are used to assess strength of evidence for presentation in court. Different forensic voice comparison systems may use different approaches, and even among systems using the same general approach there can be substantial differences in operational details. From case to case, the relevant population, speaking styles, and recording conditions can be highly variable, but it is common to have …