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Detecting voice disguise from speech variability: Analysis of three glottal and vocal tract measures

open access: yes, 2014
The deliberate attempt by speakers to conceal their identity (voice disguise) presents a challenge for forensics and for automated speaker identification systems.
Talal B. Amin   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Hidden Costs of Ethical Fashion: Sustainable Development Goals and Garment Worker Exploitation in Bangladesh

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across garment factories in the Global South, the promise of “ethical fashion” coexists with poverty wages and retaliation. This study examines why the global call for decent work has not improved labor conditions in Bangladesh's ready‐made garment industry.
Md. Rafiqul Islam Rana
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source

Typical forms of counteraction to the investigation of criminal offences related to interference with the activities of public authorities

open access: yesBulletin of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs
The article substantiates the position that counteraction to an investigation is a complex phenomenon which may encompass various forms of behaviour implemented by interested parties with the aim of preventing detection of a criminal offence, and making ...
V. Yu. Popov
doaj   +1 more source

Goffman's Tempting the Devil in Stigma: A Close Rereading of Goffman's “Subversive” Construct of “the Normals” Versus “the Stigmatized”

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article engages in a close rereading of Stigma, relating it to Goffman's biography as a person who faced stigma. Exploring his biography helps us to recognize the ways Goffman applies stigma strategies in how he represents himself as the author in Stigma.
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

A Switch of Dialect as Disguise [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Criminals may purposely try to hide their identity by using a voice disguise such as imitating another dialect. This paper empirically investigates the power of dialect as an attribute that listeners use when identifying voices and how a switch of ...
Sjöström, Maria   +7 more
core  

When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE ELEMENT OF VOCAL DISGUISE IN SOCIOPHONETIC DECEPTION: A REPORT ON ONGOING RESEARCH [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper is a report on my current findings within my M.A. (Linguistics) research, which focuses on vocal disguise within forensic linguistics. Specifically, I aim to answer the question of what individuals are most likely to do with their voice when ...
Sobol, Brittany
core   +1 more source

Voice disguise strategies of Czech speakers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In forensic practice, when there is the need to identify a speaker using a recording of his speech, forensic voice identification is applied. If the perpetrator is aware of the option of their speech being recorded, for instance in cases such as ...
Růžičková, Alžběta
core  

Managing Competency‐Based Resistance in Video‐Mediated L2 Peer Feedback Sessions

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Though there is growing empirical evidence on managing advice resistance as an institutional work of higher status party with superior epistemic knowledge domain (e.g., trainer) across diverse settings (e.g., supervision meetings), there is still a lack of research on how second language (L2) learners handle peer resistance in real time once ...
Kübra Ekşi
wiley   +1 more source

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