Proceedings

Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology

3-5 December 2024, Melbourne, Australia

Editors: Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen

ISSN 2207-1296. Copyright © 2024 ASSTA

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Individual papers are listed below in the order they appear in the programme.

Keynote

Tabain, Marija, Garellek, Marc, & Gordon, Matthew. (2024). A consideration of the consonant chart in the International Phonetic Alphabet. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 1-6). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Session 1: Consonants

Szalay, Tuende, Proctor, Michael, Gully, Amelia, Piyadasa, Tharinda, Jin, Craig, Waddington, David, Sanaei, Naeim, Yue, Yaoyao, Foster, Sheryl, & Ballard, Kirrie. (2024). Lateral articulation across vowel contexts: Insights from a magnetic resonance imaging case study. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 7-11). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Shields, Isabella, Keegan, Peter, & Watson, Catherine. (2024). Māori /r/ acoustics: Preliminary analysis of the first and second formant. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 12-16). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Sun, Chao, & Billington, Rosey. (2024). Sonority patterns in Lelepa onset clusters. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 17-21). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Session 2: Machine Learning

Gonzalez, Simon, Littlefield, Jason, Hoang, Tao, Kim, Maria, Cawley, Tim, & Biggs, Jennifer. (2024). Extending ASR systems error measurements: Reporting lexical and grammatical errors. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 22-26). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Weiss, Maya, Gnevsheva, Ksenia, Travis, Catherine, & Docherty, Gerry. (2024). Application of ASR to a sociolinguistic corpus of Australian English. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 27-31). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Liu, Junchen, James, Jesin, & Nathwani, Karan. (2024). Does the inclusion of other modalities enhance the performance of speech emotion recognition systems? In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 32-36). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Session 3: Speech Processing

Chin, Jessica L. L., Bruggeman, Laurence, & Antoniou, Mark. (2024). Masker language and acoustic confusability: Effects on letter sequence recognition. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 37-41). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Kilpatrick, Alexander, & Peperkamp, Sharon. (2024). Coarticulation and transitional probability in Japanese perceptual epenthesis. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 42-46). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Kilpatrick, Alexander, & Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke. (2024). Decoding surprisal and iconicity in American English. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 47-51). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Session 4: Vowels

Piyadasa, Tharinda Meegasmullage, Proctor, Michael, Gully, Amelia, Yue, Yaoyao, Ballard, Kirrie, Sanaei, Naeim, Foster, Sheryl, Szalay, Tuende, Waddington, David, & Jin, Craig. (2024). Acoustic analysis of vowel production using magnetic resonance imaging. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 52-56). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Lan, Canaan, Maxwell, Olga, & Diskin-Holdaway, Chloé. (2024). Static and dynamic analyses of the back vowels /uː/ and /ʊ/ in Singapore English. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 57-61). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Mooshammer, Christine, Lange, Robert, & Weißgerber, Marie-Theres. (2024). Schwa optionality in spontaneous speech in German: A meta-study of verbal inflection in three corpora. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 62-66). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Session 5: Bilingual Speech

Vijayakumar, Poorani, Bruggeman, Laurence, & Antoniou, Mark. (2024). Bilinguals’ segmentation of unfamiliar speech rhythm. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 67-71). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Choi, Yeongeun, & Draxler, Christoph. (2024). Development of phonetic cues in early L2 speech production: The case of Korean plosives pronounced by native German speakers. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 72-76). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Ishii, Daichi, & Wilson, Ian. (2024). Articulation of North American English /r/ by Japanese and Mandarin speakers. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 77-81). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Session 6: Australian English

Proctor, Michael, Kim, Jae-Hyun, Penney, Joshua, Ratko, Louise, & Cox, Felicity. (2024). Characterizing rhotic articulation in Australian English using ultrasound. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 82-86). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Tobin, Elise, Penney, Joshua, White, Hannah, & Cox, Felicity. (2024). Give a little whistle: A neglected characteristic of Australian English productions of /s/. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 87-91). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Wang, Yizhou, O’Shannessy, Carmel, Davis, Vanessa, Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke, Roberts, Joshua, & Foster, Denise. (2024). Vowel acoustics in conversational Central Australian Aboriginal English. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 92-96). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Session 7: Child Language Acquisition

Escudero, Paola, Pino Escobar, Gloria, Hernandez Gallego, Milena, Diskin-Holdaway, Chloé, & Hajek, John. (2024). A database of multilingual child speech with recordings from a longitudinal project for multilingual education. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 97-101). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Escudero, Paola, Li, Weicong, & Diskin-Holdaway, Chloé. (2024). Have four-year-olds mastered vowel reduction in English? An acoustic analysis of bilingual and monolingual child storytelling. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 102-106). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Diskin-Holdaway, Chloé, Li, Weicong, & Escudero, Paola. (2024). Bilingual preschoolers’ phonetic variation keeps up with monolingual peers: The case of voiceless plosives in Australian English. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 107-111). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Hernandez Gallego, Milena, Pino Escobar, Gloria, Li, Weicong, & Escudero, Paola. (2024). English lexical productivity and diversity in Spanish-English bilingual children in Australia. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 112-116). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Special Session: The Phonetic Expression of Phonological Length

Browne, Mitchell, Proctor, Michael, Simpson, Jane, Harvey, Mark, Mailhammer, Robert, & Carpenter, Harriet. (2024). Stop oppositions in Warumungu: A distributional and acoustic analysis. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 117-121). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Li, Shubo, & Billington, Rosey. (2024). Phonetic evidence for fortis-lenis contrast in Kufo pulmonic plosives. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 122-126). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Aldossari, Albandary, Dian, Angelo, Hajek, John, & Fletcher, Janet. (2024). On consonant gemination and durational effects in word-medial position in Modern Standard Arabic: A preliminary study. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 127-131). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Hamzah, Mohd Hilmi, Tsukada, Kimiko, Hajek, John, & Đào, Đích Mục. (2024). Perception of the Kelantan Malay word-initial singleton/geminate contrast by Vietnamese speakers. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 132-136). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Hui, C. T. Justine, Shields, Isabella, Keegan, Peter, & Watson, Catherine. (2024). A preliminary study on the vowel length contrast in te reo Māori. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 137-141). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Jepson, Kathleen, & Puggaard-Rode, Rasmus. (2024). Vowel duration beyond contrastive length in Djambarrpuyŋu. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 142-146). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Session 8: Voice Quality and Prosody

Dian, Angelo, Hajek, John, & Fletcher, Janet. (2024). An acoustic and electroglottographic (EGG) investigation of preaspiration and voice quality in the Italian four-way stop contrast across regional accents. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 147-151). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

White, Hannah, Penney, Joshua, & Cox, Felicity. (2024). Fillers and creaky voice presence in Australian English. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 152-156). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Torres, Catalina, Morand, Marie-Anne, Sauppe, Sebastian, & Bickel, Balthasar. (2024). The effects of syntactic dependencies and speech tempo on macro-rhythm. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 157-161). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Fletcher, Janet, & Gregory, Adele. (2024). Speech task and prosodic context influence glottal stop variation in Tahitian. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 162-166). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Poster Session Papers (for abstracts for other posters see here)

Ibrahim, Karim M., Perzo, Antony, & D’hiet, Larsen. (2024). An alternative approach to depression diagnosis: Predicting individual symptoms through speech and text analysis. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 167-171). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Stasak, Brian, & Larsen, Mark. (2024). Investigating word retrieval bias during verbal semantic fluency tasks in adolescents at-risk for mental health disorders. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 172-176). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Rathnayake, Himashi, James, Jesin, Nicholas, Ake, Leoni, Watson, Catherine I., & Keegan, Peter J. (2024). Towards identifying the common social emotions in spoken te reo Māori: A community-oriented approach. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 177-181). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Bijun, Ling. (2024). How does prosody distinguish Wh-question from Wh-declarative in Shanghai Chinese. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 182-186). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

De Iacovo, Valentina, & Hajek, John. (2024). The production of /l/ in Italian by HS and L2 Italian speakers in Australia: Exploring the effect of syllable position and adjacent vowel quality. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 187-191). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Cooper, Stephanie, & Post, Brechtje. (2024). Factors influencing flexibility in vowel categorisation. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 192-196). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

An, Henry, James, Jesin, Watson, Catherine I., & Abeysinghe, Binu. (2024). Visualising vowel dynamics for the training of text to speech systems. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 197-201). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Special Session: Sociophonetic Variability in the English Varieties of Australia

Clements, Conor, Penney, Joshua, & Cox, Felicity. (2024). Positional allophony, ethnolectal variation and /l/ darkness in Australian English. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 202-206). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

van de Ven, Joshua, Baker, Brett, Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke, & Wang, Yizhou. (2024). A doll on the dole: Prelateral length mergers in Australian English. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 207-211). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Powell-Davies, Thomas, & Billington, Rosey. (2024). Realisation of intervocalic /t/ in Australian English: A snapshot. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 212-216). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Penney, Joshua, & Cox, Felicity. (2024). Voice quality in voiceless coda stop contexts: Evidence from Australian English speakers with English and Arabic language backgrounds. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 217-221). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

McDougall, Kirsty, Paver, Alice, Duckworth, Martin, Loakes, Debbie, & Blackwell, Liz. (2024). Patterns of silent pausing in Aboriginal and mainstream Australian Englishes spoken in Warrnambool. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 222-226). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Blackwell, Liz, & McDougall, Kirsty. (2024). Sociophonetic variation of filled pauses in Victoria, Australia. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 227-232). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Shea, Timothy, White, Hannah, Penney, Joshua, & Cox, Felicity. (2024). Masculinity and sexual orientation as predictors of creaky voice in Australian English speaking men. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 232-236). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Session 9: Forensics

Aubanel, Vincent, & Fraser, Helen. (2024). FSEEL: A platform for listening-based evaluation of forensic speech enhancement. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 237-241). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Kettle, Eleanor, & Fraser, Helen. (2024). Evaluating transcripts of poor-quality forensic audio: Sine-wave speech and forensic audio. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 242-246). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Rose, Phil. (2024). Applications of the likelihood ratio framework in forensic speech science cases involving disputed utterances, tampering, and voice lineups. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 247-251). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Clermont, Frantz, & Ishihara, Shunichi. (2024). Locating spectral regions of speaker sensitivity with the sub-band mel-frequency cepstrum: An investigation guided by forensic voice comparison. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 252-256). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Session 10: Affective Speech

Ben-Dom, Itay, Watson, Catherine, & McCann, Clare. (2024). Preliminary acoustic analysis of emotional speech production from New Zealand English speakers with Parkinson’s disease. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 257-261). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Szalay, Tuende, Stasak, Brian, Maston, Kate, Werner-Seidler, Aliza, & Larsen, Mark. (2024). Exploring fundamental frequency characteristics of Australian adolescents with and without depression in the Future Proofing Study Corpus. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 262-266). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Cho, Daniel, Watson, Catherine, & James, Jesin. (2024). Impact of speech emotions on vowel space. In Olga Maxwell & Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 267-271). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

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