Personal profile
SUMMARY of research interests (100 words)
My research combines a number of subareas of speech science. I am mainly interested in forensic speech technology (accent recognition and speaker recognition systems) and how we can use phonetic and sociophonetic research to uncover the inner workings and potential of these technologies.
Education/Academic qualification
MA (by Research) Linguistics, University of York
1/10/2012 → 30/09/2014
Award Date: 1/07/2015
MA (Hons) Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
30/09/2008 → 1/07/2012
Award Date: 1/07/2012
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Developing Y-ACCDIST's robustness for use on Levantine Arabic Dialects
Brown, G. (Principal Investigator)
1/08/25 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
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FACTOR: Forensic linguistics, Cybersecurity and Technology Research: Operations Suite
Hardaker, C. (Principal Investigator) & Brown, G. (Principal Investigator)
15/12/23 → 14/12/26
Project: Research
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Identifying speakers you speak an unfamiliar language: finding a solution to foreign-language evidence in forensic speech casework
Brown, G. (Principal Investigator)
28/03/22 → 27/03/23
Project: Research
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Speech Dataset Sourcing Project
Brown, G. (Principal Investigator)
28/10/19 → 3/12/19
Project: Research
Research output
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Intellectual Property Rights at the Training, Development and Generation Stages of Large Language Models
Kirchhübel, C. & Brown, G., 20/05/2024, Proceedings of LEGAL2024: Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies @LREC-COLING-2024. Siegert, I. & Choukri, K. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 13-18 6 p.Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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Collaboration with local fieldworkers to support remote collection of high quality audio speech data
Almbark, R., Hellmuth, S. & Brown, G., 27/12/2023, In: Laboratory Phonology. 14, 1Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Realistic solutions for practising forensic scientists – A response to Morrison (2023)
Kirchhübel, C., Brown, G. & Foulkes, P., 30/09/2023, In: Science and Justice. 63, 5, p. 635-637 3 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Reviewing the performance of formants for Forensic Voice Comparison: a meta-analysis of forensic speech science research
Fairclough, L., Brown, G. & Kirchhuebel, C., 11/08/2023, Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Skarnitzl, R. & Volín, J. (eds.). Guarant International, p. 3834-3838 5 p. (Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague 2023).Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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Using speech synthesis to explain automatic speaker recognition: a new application of synthetic speech
Brown, G., Kirchhübel, C. & Cuthbert, R., 20/08/2023, p. 4723-4727. 5 p.Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review
Activities
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FACTOR Summer School 2025: Language, Speech, and AI
Hardaker, C. (Organiser), Lo, J. (Organiser), Brown, G. (Speaker), Clarke, I. (Speaker), Esposito, G. (Contributor) & McVean, H. (Contributor)
28/07/2025 → 30/07/2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Symposium
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Linguistics in the city
Lo, J. (Organiser), Nance, C. (Speaker), Brandt, S. (Speaker), Forster, P. (Speaker), Brown, G. (Speaker), Wang, D. (Speaker) & Hardaker, C. (Speaker)
11/04/2024Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
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Lancaster Girls' Grammar School
Hardaker, C. (Visiting researcher), Brown, G. (Visiting researcher) & Parkman, S. (Visiting researcher)
1/03/2024Activity: Business or School/HEI Engagement › School Engagement
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Wyke College
Hardaker, C. (Visiting researcher) & Brown, G. (Visiting researcher)
5/02/2024Activity: Business or School/HEI Engagement › School Engagement
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Nelson & Colne College
Hardaker, C. (Visiting researcher) & Brown, G. (Visiting researcher)
1/02/2024Activity: Business or School/HEI Engagement › School Engagement