Publications

Harrington, L. (2025)
The use of transcripts in the criminal courts. Written evidence (POL0002) for House of Lords Public Services Committee inquiry on police transcription.
https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/146939/pdf/

Harrington, L., Hughes, V., Harrison, P., Foulkes, P., Wormald, J., Kelly, F. & van der Vloed, D. (2025)
Variability in performance across four generations of automatic speaker recognition systems. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2025.
https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2025/harrington25_interspeech.pdf

Hughes, V., Harrington, L., Harrison, P., Kelly, F., van der Vloed, D. & Rhodes, R. (2025)
Validation of forensic voice comparison by human analysts using the auditory-acoustic approach. OSF Preprints.
https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/bzun3_v1

Harrington, L. & Rhodes, R. (2024)
Survey on forensic transcription practices. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 31 (2).
https://doi.org/10.3138/ijsll-2024-0034

Harrington, L. (2024)
Towards improving transcripts of audio recordings in the criminal justice system. PhD thesis, University of York.
https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/35134/

Harrington, L. & Hughes, V. (2023)
Automatic speech recognition: system variability within a sociolinguistically homogenous group of speakers. In: R. Skarnitzl, & J. Volín (Eds.) Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences – ICPhS 2023 (pp. 3131–3135). International Phonetic Association
https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2023/full_papers/593.pdf

Harrington, L. (2023)
Incorporating automatic speech recognition methods into the transcription of police-suspect interviews: factors affecting automatic performance. Frontiers in Communication, 8 (Capturing Talk).
https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1165233

Harrington, L, Rhodes, R. & Hughes, V. (2021)
Style variability in disfluency analysis for forensic speaker comparison. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 28 (1), 31-58.
https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.20214

Projects

Testing the reliability of human post-editing of ASR transcripts
2025: Department of Language & Linguistic Science, University of York
Co-investigator with Dr James Tompkinson. My responsibilities include creating stimuli, managing the experiment, data analysis and generating research outputs.

Person-specific automatic speaker recognition: understanding the behaviour of individuals for applications of ASR
2024-2025: Department of Language & Linguistic Science, University of York
Postdoctoral Research Associate on the PASR project, supervised by Dr Vincent Hughes. My responsibilities include creating stimuli, testing Automatic Speaker Recognition systems, managing a validation exercise and generating research outputs.

Panjabi-English in Bradford and Leicester: creating a resource for practitioners and testing automatic transcription with non-Anglo speech
2023-2025: Department of Language & Linguistic Science, University of York
Co-investigator on an IAFPA-funded project, in collaboration with Dr Jessica Wormald. My responsibilities include developing a methodology for the post-editing of transcripts produced by an Automatic Speech Recognition system, managing a Research Assistant and generating research outputs.

Towards improving transcripts of audio recordings within the criminal justice system
2020-2024: Department of Language & Linguistic Science, University of York
Doctoral research funded by the AHRC White Rose College of Arts & Humanities, supervised by Dr Vincent Hughes and Dr Richard Rhodes. My responsibilities included managing a multi-year independent research project, developing and conducting multiple experiments, comprehensive data analysis and dissemination of research findings.

Transcription of indistinct audio: are phoneticians at an advantage?
2023: Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence, University of Melbourne
Research Assistant as part of the WRoCAH Research Employability Project scheme, supervised by Professor Helen Fraser & Dr Debbie Loakes. My responsibilities included developing and conducting an online transcription experiment and carrying out comprehensive data analysis.

Evaluating human and automated transcripts of speech recordings: implications for forensic linguistics
2021-2022: Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University
Research Assistant, supervised by Dr Robbie Love & Dr David Wright. My responsibilities included testing 20 commercial Automatic Speech Recognition systems, developing an evaluative method and carrying out comprehensive data analysis.