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

[Mathias <mathias.scharinger@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 – 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 ‘A’ 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. 

Key dates: 
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:
https://www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb09/institutes/german-linguistics/phonetics/iafpa2021/

Abstract submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iafpa2021

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

Best wishes on behalf of the organising team,

Mathias Scharinger
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Prof. Dr. Mathias Scharinger
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
Arbeitsgruppe Phonetik
Pilgrimstein 16
35032 Marburg