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A podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, language mysteries, and more. Active account:

[en clair podcast (dormant account) @_enclair]

@SimonWhd <cough> S02E08 is on my desktop and S02E09 is a mystery

to all of us

one i should probably get working on

[en clair podcast (dormant account) @_enclair]

✨NEW EPISODE✨
S02E10: Bot or Not
RATING: Universal
Can you tell your real individual from your robot agent? In the ultimate game of Bot or Not, would you stake $26m of your own money on it?

Part of the @ESRC's Festival of Social Science 🤩
#LUFOSS #ESRCFestival

[en clair podcast (dormant account) @_enclair]

And the text edition is linked here.

Don't forget to let us know what you score!

Full credit to Dr @GeorgeBrownLing, Amy Dixon, and Hope McVean for all the immense background work that powered these projects and made this episode possible. https://t.co/W2CqHP6lZr

[en clair podcast (dormant account) @_enclair]

Find it on all your usual podcasting platforms.

If you'd like to play the REAL Bot or Not quizzes, you can have a go at the audio edition here: https://t.co/oQEqPkXUZT

[Prof Claire Hardaker (dormant account) @DrClaireH]

1/4 🤖 Remember when we did Bot or Not: Text Edition? Guess what? With thanks to Hope McVean, @GeorgebrownLing and I have just launched the essential follow-up - Bot or Not: Audio Edition. 🤩

Can you distinguish between humans and AI just by listening? #AI #SpeechRecognition

[FACTOR (dormant account) @_FACTOR_LU]

✨UPCOMING TALK ✨

SPEAKER: Dr Sebastian Muth, LAEL

TITLE: Language assistance at His Majesty’s Prisons (HMPs)

TIME/DATE: 1500-1550, Thu 17th Oct 2024

PLACE: Bowland North SR2

REGISTER: https://t.co/5ri2SdoCxH

[Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni @LAEL_LU]

Deception detection is a critical area, but do we all lie in the same way? We're looking for British-English-speaking adults (18+) who are either neurotypical or have ADHD to take part in a short 10-15 min study. Your participation can make a difference! https://t.co/vnANdUdOsA

[Prof Claire Hardaker (dormant account) @DrClaireH]

When that voicenote arrives from a loved one saying they've been arrested on holiday, they're in an awful prison, and they need money to get out... how do you know it's actually them?

Once, our voice really was our password, but now we're in a new era of AI-assisted crime. 1/3

[Prof Claire Hardaker (dormant account) @DrClaireH]

near enough

[Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni @LAEL_LU]

We're back with more Bot or Not, but this time, it's the Celebrity Edition

Our student, Hope, wants to know if we're better at detecting spoofed speech when we're familiar with the speaker

Think you've got top tier AI-detection skills? Try them out here: https://t.co/JwgIQuLvUg

[Prof Claire Hardaker (dormant account) @DrClaireH]

Every time a league table comes out, as academics, we struggle about what to do with the results, no matter whether they're good or bad

Why?

Well, league tables are far from perfect. Doesn't matter the league. Doesn't matter the table. It has problems. Guaranteed

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[Prof Claire Hardaker (dormant account) @DrClaireH]

I know I go on about how awesome linguistics is, but, have you ever actually met a linguist?

Seriously

You might be thinking, “I’d love to do an MSc in Forensic Linguistics and Speech Science but… I’ve never met a linguist before and you just never know…”

1/7

[Prof Claire Hardaker (dormant account) @DrClaireH]

Dr @justinjhlo is giving the last talk in our free series on Wednesday:

Ep4: Say *** again? Disputed speech in forensic audio

How do we handle poor quality recordings in criminal cases? What are the challenges of speech perception and disputed utterances in forensic audio?

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[Prof Claire Hardaker (dormant account) @DrClaireH]

If you enjoyed Bot or Not online, guess what? We're upping the stakes and taking it on tour

On Thu 11 Apr, Bot or Not: The Remix hits Morecambe as part of @CampusintheCity

Pit your wits to see if you can tell AI v human speech and secure a place on the leaderboard

[Prof Claire Hardaker (dormant account) @DrClaireH]

Dr @issy_clarke1 is giving the next talk in our free series on Wednesday:

Ep3: Who wrote this text? Forensic Authorship Analysis

Description: Learn about authorship analysis, including a recent case of a terrorist suspect claiming responsibility for planting a bomb.

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[Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni @LAEL_LU]

The next webinar for our new MSc in Forensic Linguistics & Speech Science on Voice biometric technology will be hosted live today at 1pm by Dr George Brown.

Register here for the live link:
https://t.co/MaWJQDFgxF

@GeorgeBrownLing @_FACTOR_LU

[Prof Claire Hardaker (dormant account) @DrClaireH]

Plenty of people have never heard of forensic linguistics or forensic speech science, and that might make it easy to think that we don't need these fields of expertise.

Here are five quick examples to change your mind.

Spirits, spies, spoofs, spellings - we have it all...

[Prof Claire Hardaker (dormant account) @DrClaireH]

Dr @GeorgeBrownLing is giving the next talk in our free series on Wednesday:

Ep2: Should you put your money where your mouth is? Voice biometric technology in banking

Description: How secure are voice-based bank security systems? And how easy is it for AI to spoof you?

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[Prof Claire Hardaker (dormant account) @DrClaireH]

Last week we ran a free short webinar on whether we could use linguistics to detect deception, but that's just the beginning. There are other critical questions to answer, like: How safe is your bank's voice-based authentication system? Can AI-generated voices defeat them? 1/2