Publications
Publications
Submitted and in press
Harrison, P. & Wormald, J. (submitted) Forensic transcription and questioned utterance analysis. Chapter to appear in McDougall, K., Hudson, T., & Nolan, F. (eds.) Oxford handbook of Forensic Phonetics.
Foulkes, P. & Wormald, J. (in press) Sociophonetics. International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd ed.). Elsevier Press.
Published
Wormald, J. (2025) Asian Englishes in England. Chapter in Thomas, E. (ed.) Immigrant Englishes Around the World. Routledge.
Harrington, L., Hughes, V., Harrison, P., Foulkes, P., Wormald, J., Kelly, F. and van der Vloed, D. (2025) Variability in performance across four generations of automatic speaker recognition systems. Proceedings of Interspeech. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Sharma, D. & Wormald, J. (2024) British Asian English. In Fox, S. (ed.) Language in Britain and Ireland. Third Edition. p471- 490.
Xu, C., Wormald, J., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., Welch, P., Kelly, F. and van der Vloed, D. (2024) Voice quality in telephone speech: Comparing acoustic measures between VoIP telephone and high-quality recordings. Interspeech. Kos, Greece.
Hughes, V., Xu, C., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Welch, P., Wormald, J., Kelly, F. and van der Vloed, D. (2024) Exploring Individual Speaker Behaviour within a Forensic Automatic Speaker Recognition System. Odyssey: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop. Quebec City, Canada.
Hughes, V., Wormald, J., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Kelly, F., van der Vloed, D., Welch, P. and Xu, C. (2023) Automatic speaker recognition with variation across vocal conditions: a controlled experiment with implications for forensics. Interspeech. Dublin, Ireland.
Xu, C., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., Welch, P. and Wormald, J. (2023) Contributions of acoustic measures to the classification of laryngeal voice quality in continuous English speech. Proceedings of ICPhS XX. Prague, Czechia.
Wormald, J., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., Kelly, F., van der Vloed, D., Welch, P. and Xu, C. (2023) Sensitivity of x-vectors and automatic speaker recognition scores to vocal variation. Proceedings of ICPhS XX. Prague, Czechia.
Gully, A., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., Rhodes, R. and Wormald, J. (2022) How Voice Analysis Can Help Solve Crimes. Frontiers for Young Minds 10(702664), DOI: 10.3389/frym.2022.702664
Hughes, V. & Wormald, J. (2020) Sharing innovative methods, data and knowledge across sociophonetics and forensic speech science. Linguistics Vanguard: Special Issue on Innovative Methods in Sociophonetics 5(4), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2018-0062
Brown, G. & Wormald, J. (2017) Automatic Sociophonetics: exploring corpora with a forensic accent recognition system. JASA: Special Issue on Advancing Methods for Analyzing Dialect Variation, 142 (1), p.422-433, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4991330
Kirkham, S. & Wormald, J. (2015) Acoustic and Articulatory Variation in British Asian English Liquids. Proceedings of ICPhS XVIII. Glasgow, UK.
Wormald, J. (2015) Dynamic Variation in ‘Panjabi-English’: Analysis of F1 and F2 trajectories for face /eɪ/ and goat /əʊ/. Proceedings of ICPhS XVIII. Glasgow, UK.
Wormald, J. (2014) Bradford Panjabi-English: the Realisation of FACE and GOAT. YPL Special Issue: Proceedings of the first PARLAY conference. Issue 1, p.118-138.
Wormald, J. (2025) Speech and Audio Forensics; Benefits, Challenges, and Ethics. AI and Policing: TIPS Innovation Forum. N8 PRP & SPRITE+. Manchester. 25th September.
Wormald, J. (2022) Acting as an Expert Witness. Workshop on combined issues in FL & FSS: "The linguist in the witness box", Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, UK. 26th May.
Wormald, J. (2019) Forensic Speech Science. UCL Voice Conference, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, UK. 29th November.
Wormald, J. (2019) Listening to crime: working as a forensic speech analyst. CLCR Research Seminar Series. University of Cardiff, UK. 3rd April.
Hughes, V. and Wormald, J. (2018) Data Sharing: Solutions. WYRED Project: Data Sharing Satellite Event. University of Huddersfield, UK. 2nd August.
Wormald, J. (2018) Population data in casework. WYRED Project: Data Sharing Satellite Event. University of Huddersfield, UK. 2nd August.
Wormald, J. (2018) A Life in Headphones: Working as a Forensic Speech Analyst. Institute of Acoustics: Speech and Hearing Group AGM. London, UK. 21st June.
Wormald, J. (2016) Settings or segments: Fronting patterns in varieties of English. Linguistics research seminar. University of Huddersfield, UK. 9th March.
Wormald, J. (2015) Voice quality in ‘Panjabi-English’: Innovation, diffusion or language contact? Research Seminar. University of Glasgow, UK. 29th October.