Purpose: Tongue anatomy and function is widely described as consisting of four extrinsic
muscles to control position and four intrinsic muscles to control shape. This myoarchitecture …

Growing evidence suggests that speech intervention using visual biofeedback may benefit
people for whom visual skills are stronger than auditory skills (for example, the hearing-…

Automatic feature extraction from images of speech articulators is currently achieved by
detecting edges. Here, we investigate the use of pose estimation deep neural nets with transfer …

Ultrasound Visual Biofeedback (U-VBF) uses medical ultrasound to image the tongue in real-time
during speech. Clinicians can use this information to both assess speech disorders …

Translation and rotation movements of an ultrasound probe relative to the speaker's head
induce error. We examine one means of reducing such errors, the headset stabilising system …

In this paper we show that there is measurable information in the articulatory system which
can help to disambiguate the acoustic signal. We measure directly the movement of the lips, …

One hundred ninety-six patients treated for oral cancer between 1992 and 1999 self-scored
their speech, chewing, and swallowing using a new self-questionnaire (Functional Intraoral …

The goal of this research is to improve the performance of a speaker-independent Automatic
Speech Recognition (ASR) system by using directly measured articulatory parameters in …

Electropalatography (EPG) is a highly effective tool for speech research and for the diagnosis
and treatment of a range of speech disorders. The technique requires an EPG palate to be …

This paper describes technical and methodological advances in the development of a
procedure for measuring changes in accuracy and stability of linguapalatal (tongue-palate) …