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Dr. Irena Yanushevskaya

Dr. Irena Yanushevskaya

Assistant Professor, C.L.C.S.

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Biography

I studied Germanic Philology and Translation Studies, English and French at St Petersburg State University, Russia, and obtained my PhD in Phonetics there in 2001. I worked in St Petersburg State University at the Department of Phonetics, Faculty of Philology for several years as a Lecturer in Phonetics. I completed another PhD in Trinity College Dublin, also in Phonetics, in 2010. I worked as a Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow in the Phonetics and Speech Laboratory, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, TCD, on a number of research projects (HUMAINE - Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion; Next Generation Localisation; FASTNET - Focus on Actions in Social Talk: Network-Enabling Technology; ABAIR). At the same time, I taught Phonetics and Instrumental Phonetics at the Discipline of Speech and Language Therapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Galway. I am currently an Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Ní Chasaide, A., Yanushevskaya, I., and Gobl, C. , Prosody of voice: declination, sentence mode and interaction with prominence, The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), Glasgow, UK, August 10-14, 2015, pp1-5Conference Paper, 2015, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • De Looze, C., Yanushevskaya, I., Murphy, A., O'Connor, E., and Gobl, C. , Pitch declination and reset as a function of utterance duration in conversational speech data, Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany, 7-10 September, 2015, pp3071 - 3075Conference Paper, 2015, TARA - Full Text
  • Gobl, C., Yanushevskaya, I., and Ní Chasaide, A., The relationship between voice source parameters and the Maxima Dispersion Quotient (MDQ), Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany, September 7-10, 2015, pp2337 - 2341Conference Paper, 2015, TARA - Full Text
  • Yanushevskaya, I. and Bun"i", D., Illustrations of the IPA: Russian, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 45, (2), 2015, p221 - 228Journal Article, 2015, DOI
  • Yanushevskaya, I, Ní Chasaide, A., Gobl, C., The interaction of long-term voice quality with the realisation of focus, Speech Prosody 2016, Boston, MA, 2016, pp931 - 935Conference Paper, 2016, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Connaughton, K., Yanushevskaya, I., Measuring vocal fatigue in sports coaches, Journal of Clinical Speech and Language Studies, 23, (1), 2017, p1 - 20Journal Article, 2017, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Yanushevskaya, I., Murphy, A., Gobl, C., Ní Chasaide, A., Perceptual salience of voice source parameters in signaling focal prominence, Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, CA, 2016, pp3161 - 3165Conference Paper, 2016, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Yanushevskaya, I., Ní Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C., Cross-speaker variation in voice source correlates of focus and deaccentuation, INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017, pp1034 - 1038Conference Paper, 2017, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Murphy, A., Yanushevskaya, I., Ní Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C., Rd as a control parameter to explore affective correlates of the tense-lax continuum, INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017, pp3916 - 3920Conference Paper, 2017, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Ní Chasaide, A., Yanushevskaya, I. and Gobl, C., Voice-to-affect mapping: Inferences on language voice baseline settings, INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017, pp1258 - 1262Conference Paper, 2017, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Murphy, A., Yanushevskaya, I., Ní Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C., Voice Source Contribution to Prominence Perception: Rd Implementation, INTERSPEECH 2018, Hyderabad, India, 2018, pp217 - 221Conference Paper, 2018, DOI
  • Gobl, C., Murphy, A., Yanushevskaya, I. and Ní Chasaide, A., On the relationship between glottal pulse shape and its spectrum: correlations of open quotient, pulse skew and peak flow with source harmonic amplitudes, INTERSPEECH 2018, Hyderabad, India, 2018, pp222 - 226Conference Paper, 2018, DOI
  • Yanushevskaya, I., Gobl, C. and Ní Chasaide, A., Cross-language differences in how voice quality and f0 contours map to affect, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144, (5), 2018, p2730 - 2750Journal Article, 2018, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • McAlister S., Yanushevskaya I., Voice assessment practices of speech and language therapists in Ireland, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2019Journal Article, 2019, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Gobl, C., Yanushevskaya, I., Murphy, A., Ní Chasaide, A., Comparison of time and frequency domain measures of the voice source, ICPhS 2019: the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 2019, pp3290 - 3294Conference Paper, 2019, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Murphy, A., Yanushevskaya, I., Ní Chasaide, A., & Gobl, C., The role of voice quality in the perception of prominence in synthetic speech, Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria, Sept 15-19, 2019, 2019, pp2543 - 2547Conference Paper, 2019, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Murphy, A., Yanushevskaya, I., Ní Chasaide, A., Gobl, C., Testing the GlórCáil system in a speaker and affect voice transformation task, Speech Prosody 2020, Tokyo, Japan, May 25-28, 2020, 2020, pp950 - 954Conference Paper, 2020, DOI
  • Shaw, Á. and Yanushevskaya, I., Students' views and experiences of the training and use of phonetic transcription in speech and language therapy: the Irish perspective, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2021, p1 - 16Journal Article, 2021, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Murphy, A., Yanushevskaya, I., Ní Chasaide, A., Gobl, C., Integrating a voice analysis-synthesis system with a TTS framework for controlling affect and speaker identity, 2021 32nd Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC), Athlone, Ireland, 10-11 June 2021, 2021, pp1 - 6Conference Paper, 2021, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Murphy, A., Yanushevskaya, I., Ní Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C., Affect Expression: Global and Local Control of Voice Source Parameters, Speech Prosody, Lisbon, Portugal, 2022, pp1 - 5Conference Paper, 2022, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Chiat, S., Polišenská, K., Yanushevskaya, I., Antonijevic, S., 'Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test (CL-NWR) Stimuli', https://www.bi-sli.org, 2020, -Digital research resource production, 2020, URL
  • Yanushevskaya, I., Murphy, A., Gobl, C., Ní Chasaide, A., Global waveshape parameter Rd in signaling focal prominence: Perceptual salience in the absence of f0 variation, Frontiers in Communication, 2022, p1-23Journal Article, 2022, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Shaw, Á., & Yanushevskaya, I., Shaw, Á., & Yanushevskaya, I. (2021). Students' views and experiences of the training and use of phonetic transcription in speech and language therapy: the Irish perspective [poster]. ICPLA 2021, Glasgow, UK., ICPLA 2021, Glasgow, UK, 2021, 2021Poster, 2021, TARA - Full Text
  • O'Donnell, N. & Yanushevskaya, I., Establishing Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP) normative data for young adults in Ireland: the impact of gender, speech task and recording conditions, ICPLA 2023, Salzburg, Austria, July 4-7, 2023, 2023Conference Paper, 2023, TARA - Full Text
  • O'Regan, S & Yanushevskaya, I., Cepstral peak prominence in normophonic adults: the effect of gender and speech task segmental composition, ICPhS, Prague, Czech Republic, August 7-11, 2023, 2023, pp1826 - 1830Conference Paper, 2023, TARA - Full Text
  • O'Donnell, Niamh, Yanushevskaya, Irena, Establishing Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP) normative data for young adults in Ireland: the impact of gender, speech task and recording conditions, ICPLA 2023, Salzburg, Austria, July 4th-7th, 2023, 2023, pp1Poster, 2023, TARA - Full Text
  • Yanushevskaya, I., O'Donnell, N., and O'Regan, S., Cepstral Peak Prominence in normophonic Irish-English speaking adults: the effect of gender, age, speech task segmental composition, recording conditions and CPP extraction method, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2024, p1-30Journal Article, 2024, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Althagafi, A. and Yanushevskaya, I., The progression of phonetic transcription skills in a speech and language therapy training program [abstract], ICPLA 2025 [20th biennial conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association], Patras, Greece, June 25-27, 2025, 2025Conference Paper, 2025
  • Yanushevskaya, I., Gobl, C. and Ní Chasaide, A., Voice quality and f0 cues for affect expression: implications for synthesis, Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, INTERSPEECH 2005, Lisbon, Sept, 4-8, 2005, pp1849 - 1852Conference Paper, 2005, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Yanushevskaya, I., Gobl, C. and Ní Chasaide, A., Mapping Voice to Affect: Japanese listeners, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Speech Prosody, International Conference on Speech Prosody, Dresden, 2-5 May, ISCA, 2006, pp1-4Conference Paper, 2006, TARA - Full Text
  • Time- and amplitude-based voice source correlates of emotional portrayals in, editor(s)A. Paiva, R. Prada, R. W. Picard , Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Berlin Heidelberg, Springer, 2007, pp156 - 170, [Yanushevskaya, I., Tooher, M., Gobl, C. and Ní Chasaide, A.]Book Chapter, 2007, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Tooher, M., Yanushevskaya, I. and Gobl, C., Transformation of LF parameters for speech synthesis of emotion: regression trees, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, International Conference on Speech Prosody, Campinas, Brazil, ISCA, 2008, pp705 - 708Conference Paper, 2008, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Yanushevskaya, I., Gobl, C. and Ní Chasaide, A., Voice quality and loudness in affect perception, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Campinas, Brazil, 2008, pp709 - 712Conference Paper, 2008, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Yanushevskaya, I., Ní Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C. , Cross-language study of vocal correlates of affective states, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2008, Brisbane, Australia, 2008, pp330 - 333Conference Paper, 2008, URL
  • Yanushevskaya, I., Gobl, C., Ní Chasaide, A., Perceived loudness and voice quality in affect cueing, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2009, Brighton, UK, 2009, pp1979 - 1982Conference Paper, 2009, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Yanushevskaya, I., Gobl, C. and Ní Chasaide, A., Voice parameter dynamics in portrayed emotions, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop: Models and analysis of vocal emissions for biomedical applications, Florence, Italy, edited by Claudia Manfredi , Firenze University Press, 2009, pp21 - 24Conference Paper, 2009, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Ní Chasaide, A., Yanushevskaya, I. and Gobl, C., Voice source dynamics in intonation, The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), Hong Kong, China, 2011, pp1470 - 1473Conference Paper, 2011, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Yanushevskaya, I., Ní Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C., Universal and language-specific perception of affect from voice, The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), Hong Kong, China, 2011, pp2208 - 2211Conference Paper, 2011, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Yanushevskaya, I., Gobl, C., Kane, J. and Ní Chasaide, A., An exploration of voice source correlates of focus, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2010, Makuhari, Japan, 2010, pp462 - 465Conference Paper, 2010, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Kane, J., Yanushevskaya, I., Ní Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C., Exploiting time and frequency domain measures for precise voice source parameterisation, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Shanghai, China, 2012, pp143 - 146Conference Paper, 2012, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Language matters in the perception of affect from voice in, editor(s)Verbickaja L. V., Ivanova N. K. , "elovek govor'aš"ij. K 80-letiju so dn'a roždenija L. V. Bondarko (Speaking man. To commemorate the 80th anniversary of L. V. Bondarko), Ivanovo, Russia, Ivanovo State University of Technology, 2012, pp172 - 180, [Yanushevskaya, I., Ní Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C.]Book Chapter, 2012, TARA - Full Text
  • Yanushevskaya I., Gobl C., Ní Chasaide A., Voice quality in affect cueing: does loudness matter?, Frontiers in Psychology, 4, (335), 2013, p1 - 14Journal Article, 2013, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Kane, J., Yanushevskaya, I., Dalton, J., Gobl, C., Ní Chasaide, A., Using phonetic feature extraction to determine optimal speech regions for maximising the effectiveness of glottal source analysis, Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France, 25-29 August 2013, 2013, pp29 - 33Conference Paper, 2013, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Ní Chasaide, A., Yanushevskaya, I., Kane, J., Gobl, C. , The voice prominence hypothesis: the interplay of F0 and voice source features in accentuation, Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France, August 25-29, 2013, 2013, pp3527 - 3531Conference Paper, 2013, TARA - Full Text
  • Kane, J., Aylett, M., Yanushevskaya, I., Gobl, C. , Phonetic feature extraction for context-sensitive glottal source processing, Speech Communication, 59, 2014, p10 - 21Journal Article, 2014, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Yanushevskaya, I., Kane, J., De Looze, C., Ní Chasaide, A., The distribution of pitch patterns and communicative types in speech chunks preceding pauses and gaps, Speech Prosody 7, Dublin, Ireland, May 20-13, 2014, 2014, pp959 - 963Conference Paper, 2014, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Dalton, J., Kane, J., Yanushevskaya, I., Ní Chasaide, A., Gobl, C., GlóRí - the glottal research instrument, Speech Prosody 7, Dublin, Ireland, May 20-23, 2014, 2014, pp944 - 948Conference Paper, 2014, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • De Looze, C., Yanushevskaya, I., Kane, J., Ní Chasaide, A. , Pitch range declination and reset in turn-taking organisation, Speech Prosody 7, Dublin, Ireland, May 20-23, 2014, 2014, pp1100 - 1104Conference Paper, 2014, DOI , TARA - Full Text

Research Expertise

I am an expert phonetician. My research over the past decade has been concerned with the role of the voice source in speech communication, in particular voice source dynamics in the signalling of linguistic prosody (e.g., prominence, accentuation, deaccentuation) and in the signalling of emotion and affect. I have worked on the development of robust tools for voice analysis. I have a strong interest in clinical applications of phonetic sciences. Recently I have been working on collecting normative data for Cepstral Peak Prominence, a voice parameter currently suggested as a robust tool for clinical voice assessment. My research explores how speaker gender, age, speech task segmental composition, recording conditions and CPP extraction method affect CPP values.

Humanities and the arts, Languages and literature, Education,

Recognition

  • Irish Research Staff Association 2023
  • International Phonetic Association current
  • ISCA - International Speech Communication Association current
  • International Association of Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics current
  • Irish Federation of University Teachers current
  • Member of the Board of Assessors for the Discipline of Speech and Language Therapy, University of Galway January 2024
  • Reviewer for international conferences: Speech Prosody, Interspeech, International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
  • External examiner for MSc in Speech and Language Sciences programme at University College London September 2024-present
  • Associate Editor for the 'Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics' journal (Taylor & Francis) September 2023-present
  • Reviewer for international journals: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Phonetics, Speech Communication, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Journal of Communication Disorders, Frontiers in Communication, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders