Dr Linda Gerlach

Linda Gerlach completed her PhD in Computation, Cognition and Language, supervised by Dr Kirsty McDougall. Her research focuses on the selection of similar speakers based on perceptual judgements and measured features for forensic applications. She completed her undergraduate degree in Language and Communication at Philips University Marburg (Germany), and obtained an MA degree in Speech Science with a focus on phonetics at the same university. Whilst on an internship at Oxford Wave Research and in collaboration with the phonetics laboratory of the University of Cambridge, she explored the perception of voice similarity based on listener ratings and output from an automatic speaker recognition system for her final MA project. During her MA degree, she also worked as a student assistant on Regionalsprache.de (REDE) projects at the Forschungszentrum Deutscher Sprachatlas, which investigates modern regional languages of German.

Research Scientist and QA Manager at Oxford Wave Research