[AUDITORY] Conference Announcement: International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA) (Mathias )

Subject: [AUDITORY] Conference Announcement: International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA)
From:    Mathias  <mathias.scharinger@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Mon, 26 Apr 2021 08:17:31 +0200

Dear all,

The International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics =
(IAFPA) is the professional association for forensic scientists and =
researchers who analyse voices, speech and audio recordings.
The organisation seeks to foster research and provide a forum for the =
interchange of ideas and information on practice, development and =
research in forensic phonetics and acoustics, and to set down and =
enforce standards of professional conduct and procedure for those =
involved in forensic phonetic and acoustic casework =E2=80=93 members =
are therefore bound by a Code of Practice.
IAFPA was formally established in York, England, in 1991 with the name =
The International Association for Forensic Phonetics (IAFP).  Since =
then, IAFP has grown to over 120 members worldwide, with expertise =
spanning both forensic phonetics and acoustics (hence the addition of =
the latter =E2=80=98A=E2=80=99 to IAFPA).
The 2021 conference is the postponed 2020 conference that - due to the =
continuing pandemic situation - must fully take place in a digital =
environment.=20

Key dates:=20
Abstract submission deadline - April 30th 2021
Abstract notification - Mai/June 2021
Conference dates - August 22nd - August 25th 2021


Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another =
journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

Full papers: Oral presentation of a research topic or empirical data =
related to forensic phonetics
Posters: Presentation of a topic or empirical data in the format of a =
poster
Work-in-progress posters: Presentation of a topic with intermediate or =
preliminary results

For initial submission, enter the abstract text into the form provided =
by easychair. You can make changes later. For the abstract booklet, we =
invite you to submit formatted abstracts. Details will be made available =
to you after initial submission. Please indicate at the very beginning =
of your text whether your abstract is for a full paper, poster, or =
work-in-progress poster by typing in the form: Full paper:, Poster:, =
Work-in-progress poster:, respectively.
List of Topics

We invite proposals for papers on topics including, but not limited to:

  speaker/voice comparison
  speech and audio enhancement
  transcription
  speaker profiling
  disputed utterance analysis
  authentication of recordings
  Language analysis in the asylum procedure
  automatic speaker recognition/comparison
  voice line-ups
  retrieval of population data
  interesting case reports
  exotic topics
  other

Venue:
The conference will take place as digital (online) conference. Details =
about the specific plattform and modes of presentations will follow =
soon.
Contact

Conference webpage:
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https://www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb09/institutes/german-linguistics/phonetics=
/iafpa2021/

Abstract submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Diafpa2021

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr. Gea de Jong =
(iafpa2021@xxxxxxxx)

Best wishes on behalf of the organising team,

Mathias Scharinger
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Prof. Dr. Mathias Scharinger
Philipps-Universit=C3=A4t Marburg
Institut f=C3=BCr Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
Arbeitsgruppe Phonetik
Pilgrimstein 16
35032 Marburg=