Amelia Gully is a Lecturer in Speech Science in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York. Her research investigates how differences in the vocal anatomy affect the unique sound of a speaker's voice. Her work incorporates acoustics, signal processing, mophometrics, medical imaging and perceptual studies. She has teaching experience of many aspects of voice science, computational acoustics and signal processing and is an associate fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is passionate about engaging the public with science and research, and building students' confidence with technical subjects.

Research

Research into vocal tract shape, articulation, speech synthesis and speaker identification.
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Teaching

Teaching, supervision and training in diverse topics in speech, acoustics and signal processing.
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Engagement

Academic and public engagement, community contributions, committees and institutions.
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Career

Lecturer in Speech Science (2023-)
Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2023)
Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York
Anatomy, Acoustics, and the Individual: Investigating inter-speaker vocal tract variation for forensic speaker comparison (BA PF19\100024)
Find out more about the project here.

Research Associate (2018-2019)
Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York
Voice and Identity: Source, Filter, Biometric (AHRC AH/M003396/1)
Find out more about my contribution to the project here.

Associate Lecturer (Teaching and Scholarship) (2017-2018) [maternity cover position]
Department of Electronic Engineering, University of York

Research Associate (2017-2018) [maternity cover position]
Department of Electronic Engineering, University of York

Research Associate (2015-2016) [maternity cover position]
Department of Electronic Engineering, University of York

Graduate Teaching Assistant (2013-2017)
Department of Electronic Engineering, University of York

Education

PhD Electronic Engineering (2013-2017)
Department of Electronic Engineering, University of York
Diphthong synthesis using the three-dimensional dynamic digital waveguide mesh

MSc Digital Signal Processing (2012-2013)
Department of Electronic Engineering, University of York

BSc (Hons) Audio Technology (2006-2010)
University of Salford

Grants, Honours and Awards

University of York 'Sparks' award
Awarded by the University of York for novel interdisciplinary research with headroom to grow (value £300,000) PIs: Amelia Gully, Vincent Hughes and Sophie Meekings

UKRI Enhancing Research Culture Fund
Setting up a departmental Early Career Forum (value £2,500)

Australian Research Council Discoery Project (as Co-I)
Developmental trajectory of tongue control for speech with real-time MRI (value $417,516 AUD)

University of York Sounds, Voices and Technology Research Priming Fund
Singing high and low- how does soprano vowel production change across the range? (value £1000)

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
Fellowship awarded by the British Academy (value £288,990.86)

UKAN+ Priming Fund
Development of a Computational Acoustics knowledge base (value £5,645.49)

University of York Research Priming Fund (as Co-I)
From swallowing to speech to singing: Investigating the vocal tract using electromagnetic articulography and ultrasound (value £68,186.96)

Kathleen Mary Stott Prize
Awarded for excellence in doctoral research, 2016 and 2018

Research Mobility Programme Funding
Funding for a three-week visit to University of Alberta in 2018, awarded by World Universities Network (value £2000)

Demonstrator of the Year
Department of Electronic Engineering 'Demonstrator of the Year' in 2017 and runner up in 2014, 2015 and 2016

JSPS Summer Program Fellow
Ten-week research fellowship at Nagoya Institute of Technology funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2016 (value ¥692,000 JPY)

SET for Britain Finalist
Presented a poster at the Houses of Parliament, 2016

EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant
3-year grant awarded by the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of York, 2013 (value £53,594)

Departmental Taught Masters Studentship
1-year grant awarded by the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of York, 2012 (value £4000)

Publications

V. Hughes, A. B. Cardoso, P. Foulkes, P. French, P. Harrison, and A. Gully, "Speaker-specificity in speech production: the contribution of source and filter," Journal of Phonetics, in press.

A. J. Gully, “Quantifying vocal tract shape variation and its acoustic impact: a geometric morphometric approach,” in Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2021, Brno, Czechia, 2021.

C. Terblanche, P. Harrison, and A. J. Gully, “Human spoofing detection performance on degraded speech,” in Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2021, Brno, Czechia, 2021.

T. Coy, V. Hughes, P. Harrison, and A. J. Gully, “A comparison of the accuracy of Dissen and Keshets's (2016) DeepFormants and traditional LPC methods for semi-automatic speaker recognition,” in Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2021, Brno, Czechia, 2021.

H. Daffern and A. J. Gully, "Assessing articulatory perturbations during a sung vowel-matching exercise using articulography", Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 67, no. 102546, 2021.

A. J. Gully, P. Foulkes, J. P. French, P. T. Harrison, and V. Hughes, “The Lombard effect in MRI Noise,” in Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, Melbourne, Australia, 2019.

A. J. Gully and B. V. Tucker, “Modeling voiced stop consonants using the 3D dynamic digital waveguide mesh vocal tract model,” in Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, Melbourne, Australia, 2019.

V. Hughes, A. Cardoso, P. Foulkes, J. P. French, A. Gully, and P. T. Harrison, “Forensic voice comparison using long-term acoustic measures of voice quality,” in Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, Melbourne, Australia, 2019.

V. Hughes, P. T. Harrison, P. Foulkes, J. P. French, and A. J. Gully, “Effects of formant settings and channel mismatch on semi-automatic systems in forensic voice comparison,” in Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, Melbourne, Australia, 2019.

H. Daffern, D. A. Camlin, H. Egermann, A. J. Gully, G. Kearney, C. Neale & J. Rees-Jones, "Exploring the potential of virtual reality technology to investigate the health and well being benefits of group singing", International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1-22, 2019.

A. J. Gully, H. Daffern and D. T. Murphy, "Diphthong Synthesis Using the Dynamic 3D Digital Waveguide Mesh," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 243-255, 2018. [associated dataset]

A. J. Gully, T. Yoshimura, D. T. Murphy, K. Hashimoto, Y. Nankaku and K. Tokuda, "Articulatory Text-to-Speech Synthesis using the Digital Waveguide Mesh driven by a Deep Neural Network," in Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017.

F. Albu, A. Gully and R. C. De Lamare, "Sparsity-aware pseudo affine projection algorithm for active noise control," in Proceedings of the APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, Angkor Wat, Cambodia, 2014.

A. Gully and R. C. De Lamare, "Sparsity-inducing modified filtered-x affine projection algorithms for active noise control," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, 2014.

Conference Contributions

A. Gully, "Individual vocal tract shape variation in the production of schwa," presented at Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP), York, UK, 2022.

J. H. Lo and A. Gully, "Vowel space as shape: Applying geometric morphometrics to sociophonetic variation," presented at Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP), York, UK, 2022.

E. Kiff, A. Gully and P. Foulkes, "Lip rounding in isolated vowels: An investigation into vocal tract length and acoustic output using 3D magnetic resonance imaging," presented at Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP), York, UK, 2022. [Winner of best student paper award.]

V. Hughes, A. Cardoso, P. Foulkes, J. P. French, A. Gully and P. Harrison, "Speaker-specificity in speech production: The contribution of source and filter," presented at Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP), York, UK, 2022.

C. Terblanche, P. T. Harrison, and A. Gully, "Performance of humans in detecting spoofed speech in degraded conditions", presented at 29th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA), Marburg, Germany, 2021. [Winner of best student paper award.]

H. Daffern and A. J. Gully, "Assessing articulation in singing during a vowel matching exercise using articulography", presented at Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA), Florence, Italy, 2019.

J. A. Gonzalez, P. D. Green, D. T. Murphy, A. J. Gully, and J. M. Gilbert, “Silent Speech: Restoring the Power of Speech to People whose Larynx has been Removed,” presented at IberSPEECH, Barcelona, Spain, November 2018.

A. J. Gully and D. T. Murphy, "Three-dimensional vocal tract modelling for forensic phonetics applications", presented at 27th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA), Huddersfield, UK, 2018.

A. J. Gully, "Improving the naturalness of synthetic speech using MRI-based physical models", presented at SET for Britain, House of Commons, London, UK, 2016.

A. J. Gully and D. M. Howard, "Perceived naturalness of a 3D dynamic digital waveguide mesh model of the vocal tract," presented at the 11th Pan-European Voice Conference (PEVOC-11), Florence, Italy, 2015.

CV last updated: 24th January 2023

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