A podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, language mysteries, and more. Active account: https://xitter.cf/t.co/RZrp1Wtbnt
Lancaster, England
Joined September 2009
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1/4 🤖 Remember when we did Bot or Not: Text Edition? Guess what? With thanks to Hope McVean, @GeorgebrownLing and I have just launched the essential follow-up - Bot or Not: Audio Edition. 🤩
Can you distinguish between humans and AI just by listening? #AI #SpeechRecognition
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✨UPCOMING TALK ✨
SPEAKER: Dr Sebastian Muth, LAEL
TITLE: Language assistance at His Majesty’s Prisons (HMPs)
TIME/DATE: 1500-1550, Thu 17th Oct 2024
PLACE: Bowland North SR2
REGISTER: lancaster-uk.libcal.com/even…
![ABSTRACT
In the past years, His Majesty’s Prison & Parole Service (HMPPS) has experienced a growth in the number of foreign national offenders (FNOs) who speak limited English or no English (Hunter et al., 2022). Studies to date show that inability to communicate may lead to increased rates of mental health problems, self-harm, and suicides among prisoners (Martínez-Gómez, 2018; Valero-Garcés, 2018). Unfortunately, little is known about language assistance offered by HMPPS.
In this presentation I will present preliminary findings from a research project that investigates, how prisons ensure language access to vital services such as healthcare, legal counselling, complaints procedures or education. I will draw from both survey data of prison staff as well as ethnographic data from prison visits conducted in cooperation with HMPPS Diversity & Inclusion throughout 2023 and 2024. [Read more at the link.]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GY558HJWUAAuoT4.png?name=orig)
ALT ABSTRACT In the past years, His Majesty’s Prison & Parole Service (HMPPS) has experienced a growth in the number of foreign national offenders (FNOs) who speak limited English or no English (Hunter et al., 2022). Studies to date show that inability to communicate may lead to increased rates of mental health problems, self-harm, and suicides among prisoners (Martínez-Gómez, 2018; Valero-Garcés, 2018). Unfortunately, little is known about language assistance offered by HMPPS. In this presentation I will present preliminary findings from a research project that investigates, how prisons ensure language access to vital services such as healthcare, legal counselling, complaints procedures or education. I will draw from both survey data of prison staff as well as ethnographic data from prison visits conducted in cooperation with HMPPS Diversity & Inclusion throughout 2023 and 2024. [Read more at the link.]
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Deception detection is a critical area, but do we all lie in the same way? We're looking for British-English-speaking adults (18+) who are either neurotypical or have ADHD to take part in a short 10-15 min study. Your participation can make a difference! lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.co…
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When that voicenote arrives from a loved one saying they've been arrested on holiday, they're in an awful prison, and they need money to get out... how do you know it's actually them?
Once, our voice really was our password, but now we're in a new era of AI-assisted crime. 1/3
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We're back with more Bot or Not, but this time, it's the Celebrity Edition
Our student, Hope, wants to know if we're better at detecting spoofed speech when we're familiar with the speaker
Think you've got top tier AI-detection skills? Try them out here: lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.co…
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Every time a league table comes out, as academics, we struggle about what to do with the results, no matter whether they're good or bad
Why?
Well, league tables are far from perfect. Doesn't matter the league. Doesn't matter the table. It has problems. Guaranteed
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I know I go on about how awesome linguistics is, but, have you ever actually met a linguist?
Seriously
You might be thinking, “I’d love to do an MSc in Forensic Linguistics and Speech Science but… I’ve never met a linguist before and you just never know…”
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Dr @justinjhlo is giving the last talk in our free series on Wednesday:
Ep4: Say *** again? Disputed speech in forensic audio
How do we handle poor quality recordings in criminal cases? What are the challenges of speech perception and disputed utterances in forensic audio?
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If you enjoyed Bot or Not online, guess what? We're upping the stakes and taking it on tour
On Thu 11 Apr, Bot or Not: The Remix hits Morecambe as part of @CampusintheCity
Pit your wits to see if you can tell AI v human speech and secure a place on the leaderboard
Alright, I'm doing a little bit of talent scouting for people are naturally good at detecting deception.
If you think you know your Ritz from your robot and your fraud from your Four Seasons, have a crack at this fake reviews quiz... lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.co…
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Dr @issy_clarke1 is giving the next talk in our free series on Wednesday:
Ep3: Who wrote this text? Forensic Authorship Analysis
Description: Learn about authorship analysis, including a recent case of a terrorist suspect claiming responsibility for planting a bomb.
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We're running a free webinar mini-series with four taster lectures all about lies, spoofing, terrorism and more. These are hosted by academics teaching the programme, and if you join live you'll have the chance to ask them questions: lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/…
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The next webinar for our new MSc in Forensic Linguistics & Speech Science on Voice biometric technology will be hosted live today at 1pm by Dr George Brown.
Register here for the live link:
lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/…
@GeorgeBrownLing @_FACTOR_LU
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Plenty of people have never heard of forensic linguistics or forensic speech science, and that might make it easy to think that we don't need these fields of expertise.
Here are five quick examples to change your mind.
Spirits, spies, spoofs, spellings - we have it all...
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Dr @GeorgeBrownLing is giving the next talk in our free series on Wednesday:
Ep2: Should you put your money where your mouth is? Voice biometric technology in banking
Description: How secure are voice-based bank security systems? And how easy is it for AI to spoof you?
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We're running a free webinar mini-series with four taster lectures all about lies, spoofing, terrorism and more. These are hosted by academics teaching the programme, and if you join live you'll have the chance to ask them questions: lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/…
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Last week we ran a free short webinar on whether we could use linguistics to detect deception, but that's just the beginning. There are other critical questions to answer, like: How safe is your bank's voice-based authentication system? Can AI-generated voices defeat them? 1/2
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I'm doing the first talk in this free series in just over a week:
Ep1: Web of words: can we use linguistics to catch liars?
Description: Do "lie detectors" (polygraphs) really work? Are there better methods of deception detection? Can we catch liars through their words?
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We're running a free webinar mini-series with four taster lectures all about lies, spoofing, terrorism and more. These are hosted by academics teaching the programme, and if you join live you'll have the chance to ask them questions: lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/…
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Each month we're doing a spotlight to introduce @_FACTOR_LU to the world. However, any enterprise is only as good as its people, so today's thread is all about Forensic Speech Scientist, Dr @GeorgeBrownLing.
A thread of top George Brown facts coming up: 1/5
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Interested to know a little bit more about forensic linguistics and forensic speech science? Here's a very short primer and a chance to get to know more: lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/…
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Interested in doing our MSc in Forensic Linguistics & Speech Science (FLiSS) but not sure if it's for you?
Maybe you're a current student and you're trying to plan a future? Maybe you've been out of education for a while and wonder what it would be like to go back? 1/2
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We offer the world’s only MSc in Forensic Linguistics & Speech Science (FLiSS). FLiSS is based on-campus at @LancasterUni. In it you'll learn about forensic text analysis (FL) and speech science (FSS) in multiple investigative and intelligence contexts: lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgr… 1/