🗣️ Join us for an insightful talk by Greta Esposito, PhD student in @LAEL_LU! In this talk, Greta will explore the crucial role of interpretation and translation in law enforcement and how sub-optimal language services can impact the criminal justice system. #ForensicLinguistics

Curious about Emotional AI? Join Dr. Lena Podoletz (@LancasterUni Law) as she dives into this emerging tech, which is used to not only guess at emotional states based on language, micro-expressions, and vocal tones, but also to detect and forecast criminal behaviour... 🚨

Do you think you’d know if AI was imitating a voice you hear all the time? 🤔🎙️ Join us for Hope McVean's upcoming talk at @_FACTOR_LU, where she explores whether familiarity really helps - or may even hinder - our ability to spot an AI spoof of someone we know well!

Are you a second or third year student of linguistics or English language (or both)? Thinking about postgraduate study? Interested in doing (more) forensic linguistics? Then we might have a little event for you: lancaster-uk.libcal.com/even…

Roundup of recent stories that will be interesting to forensic linguists and/or forensic speech scientists... 1) July: The @NCA_UK's painstaking analysis of the encrypted communications platform EncroChat as part of Operation Venetic: nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/n…

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

This was the best day. Firstly, we got to officially unveil our newest @_FACTOR_LU member - the one and only @issy_clarke1. AND we got to do that at the absolute highlight event - the launch of the MSc in Forensic Linguistics & Speech Science. 🤩

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

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 1/13

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

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? 1/2

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

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. 1/2