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Research in language sciences typically focuses on the analysis of linguistic systems and on aspects of language variation determined by sociolinguistic parameters such as the geographical and social origin of the speaker or the situational context. Research in speech sciences, on the other hand, is mainly concerned with the dynamics of speech production and perception, so that interspeaker acoustic variability – far from being a disturbance factor or ‘noise’ – may itself constitute an object of inquiry. Moreover, the speaker-specific dimensions of variation are of great relevance in several domains of applied sciences such as speech technologies (e.g., automatic speech and speaker recognition) or forensic phonetics.
This conference provides a forum for discussing and sharing research experiences related to different aspects of speaker individuality which are investigated from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Among the possible research topics we suggest the following:
Following the tradition of AISV conferences, the programme will also include open sessions on any aspect of speech science research.