Have a spare 15 mins? Another one of my fab students Amy Cope is looking for listeners to explore how people perceive deepfakes versus real human voices 🤖 💬 slic.shef.ac.uk/77ed8da9-063...
Ben Gibb-Reid
@bgr-phon.bsky.social
Lecturer in Phonetics at University of York - Researches in forensic phonetics, acoustics, sociophon, discourse-pragmatic variation. Is a fan of breakfast and other such events. Website: https://bit.ly/Ben-Gibb-Reid
Really excited to be leading this project on deepfake voice perception with a fantastic team at York - not everyday that I get to say my research has been supported by Sir Michael Caine www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Sir Michael Caine lends his voice to AI deepfake research
Sir Michael Caine has lent his voice to a research project exploring how technology can help combat harmful deepfakes.
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This what pivot_wider() was born for
Emil Hvitfeldt@emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 2mo agoMe: trying to get my ducks in a row My ducks:
Request for participants! One of my lovely students, Creta is looking for people to respond to her survey about accents in gaming - if you like accent research and can spare 30 mins then please take part 🎮 📜 #accents #sociolinguistics york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Accents in Gaming
This is a Study on Accents in Gaming. 68 Pages, roughly, of questions for a Master's Dissertation.
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Stop the presses, Praat has a third author! (the logo remains the same) praat.org/manual/What_... #phonetics
What's new?
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Very much this
Henry Nowak was failed in the last moments of his life – and then again by Britain’s disgraceful political class | Jason Okundaye
There are vital lessons to be learned from Nowak’s death. Instead, it has been used to refuel a pervasive lie about ethnic minorities and ‘two-tier’ policing, says Guardian Opinion assistant editor Ja...
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Are you an English Language A-level teacher? Or do you know someone who is? Please see below for details of an amazing FREE CPD workshop featuring some top linguists presenting on their work 💬 👩🏫 spaces still available #linguistics #sociolinguistics #EnglishLanguage
Language and Linguistic Science @ UoY@uoylangling.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe York English Language Toolkit returns on 10 July 2026. This free hybrid CPD workshop for A-level English Language teachers features talks from Prof Devyani Sharma, Prof Paul Kerswill, Prof Sam Hellmuth and Dr Kobin Kendrick. Save the date. englishlanguagetoolk...
📣 Save the date: Friday 10th July 2026! This year's FREE and fully hybrid York English Language Toolkit CPD workshop for teachers of English Language A level is on Friday 10th July 2026 10.30am-4.30pm, with talks on Multicultural London English and more. Registration from April. Pass the word!
Here at #baap2026 - you can see my poster via this link if you want to read about Forensic phonetic methods in authentic and synthetic sample comparison📈
Gibb-Reid_Hughes_Wormald_BAAP_2026_V2.pdf
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Happy to see my article on the phonetic variation of "just"📄has just (heh) been published in English Language and Linguistics - it's open access so feel free to have a read #phonetics
Just a way of saying something: phonetic variation in the word just | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core
Just a way of saying something: phonetic variation in the word just
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Always thankful for the excellent vowel plotting resources and other tools by @joeystanley.com when I teach Data Science, plotting on the shoulders of giants joeystanley.com/blog/#catego... 🎧 #Rstats
Blog – Joey Stanley
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Resharing my free-to-use picture resource list👇
Free-to-use Picture Resources for Writers
You have options other than Generative AI to illustrate your work The other day, I posted the following Substack Note: My opinion was challenged with two now-familiar rebuttals: 1. The vast majority o...
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Dr Laura Sangha@lsangha.bsky.social · 8mo agoQuestion for #EarlyModern #Skystorians please! 🗃️ What are your favourite online places to search for public domain images? (free to use, out of copyright, cleared by copyright owner for public use etc)? Example: Public Domain Image Archive pdimagearchive.org
good morning, #linguistics 🐦🐦 pals the University of Essex wants to cut 50% of our Language & Linguistics department, close our foundation programme & our Southend campus, + cut 400 jobs academic departments and professional services jobs across all depts join us in the fight against these cuts!
Come work with us! 🌟 3 Postdoc & 5 PhD positions – deadline for applications: 20 February. www.curlew.info/jobs
"Joe’s approach to food terminology is chaos" - I feel you Joe... linguistic variation can be a real BUN-mer www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
You be the judge: should my husband stop calling all sweet things ‘buns’?
Parveen doesn’t know if she’s getting a sponge cake or a burger bap, but Joe thinks she needs to embrace his northern-isms. You decide who is sweet and who is sour
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One last student project from this years' UG phonetics class - this ones just needs monolingual English speakers and will take 10 mins york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Participants needed! One of my Phonetics students is looking for participants in her study - just requires listening to some voices in a short survey york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪💬🎧
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Hello Internet people! One of my MSc students is looking for respondents to a short survey on the ability of deepfake audio to replicate speech. If you have 2 minutes, please fill it out: forms.gle/f3ufxis3wiZG...
Perception of AI voices
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