Profile

Biography

Erica Gold is an Early Stage Researcher funded by the International FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network 'Bayesian Biometrics for Forensics (BBfor2)'.

Her research focuses on the calculation of likelihood ratios in forensic speaker comparison cases using phonetic and linguistic features. She will be looking to identify features that are useful speaker discriminants and begin to implement those into a likelihood ratio framework.

In addition to working on her PhD research, she is a member of the Forensic Speech Science Research Group and the coordinator for The Schwa Project within the research group.

Career

Research

Overview

• Forensic speaker comparison
• Forensic phonetics
• Likelihood ratios
• Bayesian probability

Current projects

• The Schwa project
  
• BBfor2
  

Research group(s)

• Forensic speech science

Publications

Selected publications

• (2009) The effects of video and voice recorders in cellular phones on vowel formants and fundamental frequency. MSc dissertation, University of York.

External activities

Memberships

• International Association of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics
• The Acoustical Society of America

Invited talks and conferences

• (2010) Calculating likelihood ratios in forensic speaker comparison cases. With Peter French. International Association of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, University of Trier.