Consultancy

Our team have a range of expertise across linguistics and audio analysis and we are keen to explore ways we can collaborate and support other organisations. Based in the Language and Linguistic Science department at the University of York, we are ranked 1st in the UK for the quality of our research (REF, 2021). If you're interested in collaborating, please get in touch.

Our research furthers our understanding of how speech and voices vary in the types of recordings typical across law enforcement. The unique combination of expertise in our team allows us to carry out high quality research which is of direct value to those working with complex and challenging recordings of speech. Explainability and accessibility are central to our research practices.

Current areas of research focus include:

• Methods in evidential speaker comparison

  • Automatic speaker recognition

  • Auditory phonetic analysis

• Written records of spoken interactions in law enforcement

  • Automatic speech recognition for transcription of police interviews

  • Human production of evidential transcripts - expert and non-expert

• Audio deepfake detection methods