Dr Yuko Kinoshita
PhD in Linguistics (ANU)
Lecturer / Honorary Senior Lecturer
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
T:
02 6125 9509
Areas of expertise
- Laboratory Phonetics And Speech Science 200404
- Language Studies 2003
Research interests
Forensic voice comparison
Linguistics and acoustic phonetics
Japanese language education
Language teaching as cultural education
Likelihood-ratio based evidence analysis and presentation
Education for the Asian Century
Researcher's projects
- Exploration of a new acoustic feature, sub-band parametric cepstral distance, in forensically relevant conditions
- Forensic voice comparison of accented Australian English
- Examination of the impact of the selection of background population on the accuracy and reliability of forensic voice comparison
Publications
- Kinoshita, Y 2020, 'Cross-Institutional Study for Languages: A Case Study in Ad Hoc Planning', in Jean Fornasiero, Sarah M. A., Reed Rob Amery, Eric Bouvet, Kayoko Enomoto, & H (ed.), Intersections in Language Planning and Policy, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 137--150.
- Montana-Hoyos, C & Kinoshita, Y 2018, 'Designing an Educational Toy for Japanese Language Learning: Exploring Multidisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Research in Design and Linguistics', The International Journal of Design in Society, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 17-33pp.
- Osanai, T, Kinoshita, Y & Clermont, F 2018, 'Exploring sub-band cepstral distances for more robust speaker classification', 17th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, ed. J Epps, J Wolfe, J Smith & C Jones, The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association, Inc., Australia, pp. 41-44.
- Kinoshita, Y, Osanai, T & Clermont, F 2018, 'Forensic voice comparison using sub-band cepstral distances as features: A first attempt with vowels from 306 Japanese speakers under channel mismatch conditions', 17th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, ed. J Epps, J Wolfe, J Smith & C Jones, The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association, Inc., Australia, pp. 45-48.
- Clermont, F, Kinoshita, Y & Osanai, T 2016, 'Sub-band cepstral variability within and between speakers under microphone and mobile conditions: A preliminary investigation', Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, ed. Christopher Carignan and Michael D. Tyler, The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association, Inc., Parramatta, Australia, pp. 317-320.
- Wagner, M & Kinoshita, Y 2016, 'Background Specificity in Forensic Voice Comparison and Its Relation to the Bayesian Prior Probability', Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, ed. Christopher Carignan and Michael D. Tyler, The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association, Inc., Parramatta, Australia, pp. 353-356.
- Kinoshita, Y 2014, 'The Role of Japanese Language Education in the Asian Century', The 18th of Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, ed. Duck Young Lee, Japanese Studies Association of Australia, Canberra, pp. 1-15.
- Kinoshita, Y & Ishihara, S 2014, 'Background population: how does it affect LR-based forensic voice comparison?', International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 191-224.
- Kinoshita, Y & Zhang, Y 2014, 'Why do we teach languages at universities? Re conceptualization of foreign language education', Languages & Cultures Network for Australian Universities Colloquium (LCNAU 2013) - The Second National LCNAU Colloquium, ed. C Travis, J Hajek, C Nettelbeck, E Beckmann and A Lloyd-Smith, LCNAU, Australia, pp. 87-99.
- Kinoshita, Y 2014, 'Looking into the real world: Likelihood ratio variability under forensically realistic conditions', Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association INTERSPEECH 2014, International Speech Communication Association, Singapore, pp. 137-140.
- Kinoshita, Y & Wagner, M 2014, 'LR-based forensic comparison under severe test-data scarcity', Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association INTERSPEECH 2014, International Speech Communication Association, Singapore, pp. 16-19.
- KINOSHITA, Y & ISHIHARA, S. (2012) The effect of sample size on the performance of likelihood ratio based forensic voice comparison. The 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science Technology. Sydney, Australian Speech Science Technology Association.
- BURNHAM, D., ESTIVAL, D., FAZIO, S., COX, F., DALE, R., VIETHEN, J., CASSIDY, S., EPPS, J., TOGNERI, R., KINOSHITA, Y., GÖCKE, R., ARCIULI, J., ONSLOW, M., LEWIS, T., BUTCHER, A., HAJEK, J. & WAGNER., M. (2011) Building an audio-visual corpus of Australian English: large corpus collection with an economical portable and replicable Black Box. Interspeech 2011. Florence, ISCA, 841-844.
- ISHIHARA, S. & KINOSHITA, Y. (2010) Whose mumbling is that? Filler words as a speaker classification feature, Proceedings of Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2010, Melbourne, Australia, December 14 – 16, 34-37.
- KINOSHITA, Y. & ISHIHARA, S. (2010) F0 can tell us more: speaker classification using the long term distribution, Proceedings of Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2010, Melbourne, Australia, December 14 – 16, 50-53.
- KINOSHITA, Y. & NORRIS, M. (2010) Simulating spontaneous speech: application to forensic voice comparison, Proceedings of Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2010, Melbourne, Australia, December 14 – 16, 26-29.
- WAGNER, M., TRAN D., TOGNERI, R., ROSE, P., POWERS, D., ONSLOW, M., LOAKES, D., LEWIS, T., KURATATE, T., KINOSHITA, Y., KEMP, N., ISHIHARA, S., INGRAM, J., HAJEK, J., Grayden, D., Göcke, R., Fletcher, J., Estival, D., Epps, J., Dale, R., Cutler, A., Cox, F., CHETTY, G., CASSIDY, S., BUTCHER, A., BURNHAM, D., BIRD, S., BEST, C., BENNAMOUN, M., ARCIULI, J., AMBIKAIRAJAH, E. (2010) The Big Australian Speech Corpus (The Big ASC). Proceedings of Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2010, Melbourne, Australia, December 14 – 16, 166-170.
- BURNHAM, D., AMBIKAIRAJAH, E., ARCIULI, J., BENNAMOUN, M., BEST, C. T., BIRD, S., BUTCHER, A. R., CASSIDY, S., CHETTY, G., COX, F. M., CUTLE, A., DALE, R., EPPS, J. R., FLETCHER, J. M., GOECKE, R., GRAYDEN, D. B., HAJEK, J. T., INGRAM, J. C., ISHIHARA, S., KEMP, N., KINOSHITA, Y., KURATATE, T., LEWIS, T. W., DEBBIE E. LOAKES, ONSLOW, M., POWERS, D. M., ROSE, P., TOGNERI, R., TRAN, D. & WAGNER, M. (2009) A Blueprint for a Comprehensive Australian English Auditory-Visual Speech Corpus. Selected Proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: Mustering Languages, 96-107.
- KINOSHITA, Y., ISHIHARA, S. & ROSE, P. (2009) Exploring the discriminatory potential of F0 distribution parameters in traditional forensic speaker recognition. International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, 16, 91-111.
- ISHIHARA, S. & KINOSHITA, Y. (2008) How Many Do We Need? Exploration of the Population Size Effect on the Performance of Forensic Speaker Classification. Interspeech 2008. Brisbane, ISCA.
- KINOSHITA, Y. (2008) Using an Audio-Video Chat Program in Language Learning. IN ZHANG, F. & BARBER, B. (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Computer-Enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning, IGI Global, 507-520.
- KINOSHITA, Y., ISHIHARA, S. & ROSE, P. (2008) Beyond the Long-term Mean: Exploring the Potential of F0 Distribution Parameters in Forensic Speaker Recognition. the ODYSSEY 2008 - The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop. Stellenboch, International Speech Communication Association.
- MORRISON, G. S. & KINOSHITA, Y. (2008) Automatic-Type Calibration of Traditionally Derived Likelihood Ratios: Forensic Analysis of Australian English /o/ Formant Trajectories. Interspeech 2008. Brisbane, ISCA.
- KINOSHITA, Y. & OSANAI, T. (2006) Within Speaker variation in diphthongal dynamics: implications in forensic speaker identification. IN WARREN, P. & WATSON, C. I. (Eds.) The 11th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology. University of Auckland, New Zealand, Australian
- ROSE, P. J., KINOSHITA, Y. & ALDERMAN, T. (2006) Realistic Extrinsic Forensic Speaker Discrimination with the Diphthong /ai/. IN WARREN, P. & WATSON, C. I. (Eds.) The 11th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology. University of Auckland, New Zealand, Australian Speech Science & Technology Association, 329-334.
- KINOSHITA, Y. (2005) Does Lindley’s LR estimation formula work for speech data?: investigation using long-term f0. International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, 12, 235-254.
- KINOSHITA, Y. (2004) LR estimation using long term F0 as a parameter: good, bad or useless? Initial investigation using Japanese data. IN CASSIDY, S., COX, F., MANNELL, R., AND PALETHORPE, S (Ed.) The Tenth Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology. Sydney, Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, 498-503.
- ROSE, P. J., OSANAI, T. and KINOSHITA, Y. (2003) Strength of Forensic Speaker Identification Evidence: Multispeaker Formant and Cepstrum Based Segmental Discrimination with a Bayesian Likelihood Ratio as Threshold. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 10. 179 202.
- KINOSHITA, Y. (2002) How small can it get? Forensic speaker identification as a function of parameter number. IN BOW, C. (Ed.) The 9th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology, 321-326.
- KINOSHITA, Y. (2002) Testing realistic forensic speaker identification in Japanese: a likelihood ratio-based approach using formants (PhD abstract). Forensic Linguistic, 9, 133-134.
- KINOSHITA, Y. (2002) Use of Likelihood ratio and Bayesian approach in forensic speaker identification. IN BOW, C. (Ed.) the ninth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Melbourne, Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, 297-302.
- ROSE, P. J., OSANAI, T. & KINOSHITA, Y. (2002) Strength of forensic speaker identification evidence: Multispeaker formant and cepstrum-based segmental discrimination with a Bayesian likelihood ratio as threshold. IN BOW, C. (Ed.) the 9th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology. Melbourne, Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, 303-308.
- KINOSHITA, Y. (1998) Japanese forensic phonetics: Non-contemporaneous within-speaker variation in natural and read-out speech. IN ROBERT, H. M. A. J. R.-R. (Ed.) the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. Sydney, Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, 1-4.
- KINOSHITA, Y. (1996) Linguistic phonetic differences in the acoustics of plosives in Chinese dialects. In: McCormack, P. A. R., A., ed. the sixth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 10-12/12 1996 Adelaide. Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, 37-42.
- Kinoshita, Y 2000, 'Effective F2 as parameter in Japanese Forensic Speaker Identification', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2000, ed. Barlow, Michael, Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc, Canberra, pp. 160-165.
- Kinoshita, Y & Maindonald, J 2000, 'Statistical Quantification of Differential Vowel Quality Comparability in Forensic Phonetic Samples', European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2000), Vienna University of Economics & Business, Vienna, Austria, pp. 166-171.
