Department of Language and Linguistic Science

Project updates: Person-specific automatic speaker recognition

Posted on 13 January 2023

PASR project welcomes Poppy Welch

The Department of Language and Linguistic Science is delighted to announce that Poppy Welch has joined the ESRC-funded Person-specific automatic speaker recognition (PASR) project as a Research Assistant. Poppy joins the team having completed a BA in Linguistics at Newcastle University and an MSc in Speech and Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh. Her masters dissertation focused on the joint modeling of anti-spoofing and speaker verification systems. Poppy’s role will involve testing and evaluating automatic speaker recognition systems using large-scale data.

The PASR project has been running for six months and members of the team have already presented outcomes of the research at conferences in Prague, Edinburgh and Korea. The project runs for another two and a half years.

“I’m really looking forward to continuing my academic development whilst working at York University and to be able to work on such an interesting project with such a great team” - Poppy Welch, Department of Language and Linguistic Science