Participants will be introduced to the basics of state-of-the-art automatic speaker recognition systems and how a system can be used to conduct research. On the first day, we will cover pre-processing, feature extraction, speaker modelling, scoring and calibration. On the second day, we will focus on developing research questions and running tests that are relevant to your own research. The course will offer a mixture of mini-lectures and practical sessions, where you will get to use the VOCALISE automatic speaker recognition system, produced by Oxford Wave Research.

The course will take place in-person at the University of York on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 January 2025. The course will run from 9:30am to 4:30pm BST (GMT+1) on the Thursday and from 9:30am to 12:30pm on the Friday.

You must be a current research student to be eligible to attend the course.