Tallulah Buckley

I am a first year PhD student funded by the AHRC Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership. My project aims to conduct a phonetic investigation of speaker attribution and its implications for legal contexts. I'm supervised by Dr Kirsty McDougall (University of Cambridge) and Dr Richard Rhodes (Forensic Voice Centre) as an industry partner.

I completed my undergraduate degree in Linguistics and an MSc in Forensic Speech Science at the University of York. The MSc project entitled 'Accounting for vocal mismatch within an automatic speaker recognition system' led to working as a research assistant on a project entitled Person-specific automatic speaker recognition: understanding the behaviour of individual speakers for applications of ASR in York.

I have also worked as a research assistant on an IAFPA grant project assessing the automatic transcription of non-Anglo speech from speakers in Bradford and Leicester, contributed to the development of a CPD course for the Forensic Speech Services, and worked on an ongoing inter-lab comparison project.

I am currently working as a research assistant conducting voice quality analysis at the University of Cambridge.

Publications

• Buckley, T., Hughes, V., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Wormald, J. H., Kelly, F., van der Vloed, D. (2024) Accounting for vocal mismatch within an automatic speaker recognition system . UKIS conference proceedings 2024, University of Cambridge, UK. 1-2 July 2024. [Poster]

   

• Buckley, T., Hughes, V., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Wormald, J. H., Gully, A., Kelly, F., van der Vloed, D. (2024) Exploring solutions to vocal mismatch for automatic speaker recognition systems. IAFPA conference proceedings 2024, L’Université du Québec à Montréal and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Montréal. 28-31 July 2024. [Poster]

   

• Buckley, T., Hughes, V., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Wormald, J. H., Kelly, F., van der Vloed, D. (2025) Addressing a variety of real-world vocal mismatches in speaker recognition systems. UKIS conference proceedings 2025, University of York, UK. 16-17 June 2025. [Poster]

   

• Harrington, L. Wormald, J. Buckley, T. Harrison, P. (2025) Overcoming challenges in the automatic transcription of sociolinguistic interviews. UKIS conference proceedings 2025, University of York, UK. 16-17 June 2025. [Poster]