Feb/March 2019
Three SPADE project papers will be given as oral presentations at the 2019 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019) to be held from 5th-9th August 2019 in the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia:
October 2018
SPADE features in two presentations: Age vectors vs. axes of intraspeaker variation for North American and Scottish English vowel formants and Dialectal and social factors affect the phonetic bases of English /s/-retraction given at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation 47 (NWAV47) conference held at New York University, USA, 18th-21st October 2018.
October 2018
The ISCAN software being developed for the SPADE project was presented in a workshop at NWAV 2018. In addition to a talk (slides: iscan-nwav-2018), participants worked through a detailed tutorial demo’ing ISCAN’s current functionality for analyses of duration, vowels, and sibilants.
August 2018
The SPADE project is the key focus of the talk Developing tools for data sharing: Polyglot + ISCAN (Integrated Speech Corpus ANalysis) given at the WYRED project Data Sharing Event held on 2nd August at the University of Huddersfield. This was a satellite event of the 27th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA).
June 2018
SPADE is a key feature in two poster presentations Age vectors vs. axes of intraspeaker variation for vowel formants in North American and Scottish English and Dialectal and social factors affect the phonetic bases of English /s/-retraction given at the 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon16) held at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, 19th-22nd June 2018.
April 2018
SPADE is a key feature of the presentation Cross-dialectal variation in /s/-retraction in English given at the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP) Colloquium held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 12th-14th April 2018.
December 2017
Digging into speech corpora: Introducing SPADE, a new initiative for mining spoken datasets on a large scale is the keynote presentation at the Corpus Linguistics in Scotland event Corpus linguistics and cross-disciplinarity in Glasgow.
December 2017
SPADE is mentioned in the presentation Sociophonetic trends in studies of Southern English at the 174th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in New Orleans.
http://acousticalsociety.org/sites/default/files/fullweek.pdf
November 2017
SPADE is mentioned in the workshop Sociolinguistics and forensic speech science: knowledge- and data-sharing at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation 46 conference in Madison, Wisconsin.
https://dept.english.wisc.edu/nwav46/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/NWAV-46-Booklet-Nov3.pdf
June 2017
SPADE is mentioned in the presentation Segmental influences on F0: A large-scale study of cross-linguistic and interspeaker variability at the Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2017 conference in Cologne, Germany.
http://pape2017.uni-koeln.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/program_1106.pdf