Key Publications

A short list of key findings and other information generated by this project

The publications and outputs here serve as the best introduction to the key insights and innovations delivered by the Ultrax research project group.  A further list of all publications is provided for completeness here.

Speech Technology Key Publications

UltraSuite: A Repository of Ultrasound and Acoustic Data from Child Speech Therapy Sessions.
Eshky, A, Ribeiro, MS, Cleland, J, Richmond, K, Roxburgh, Z, Scobbie, J & Wrench, A. in Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), INTERSPEECH. 2018.

Synchronising audio and ultrasound by learning cross-modal embeddings
Eshky, A, Ribeiro, MS, Richmond, K, Renals, S. (2019). in Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), INTERSPEECH. 2019.

Ultrasound tongue imaging for diarization and alignment of child speech therapy sessions
Ribeiro, MS, Eshky, A, Richmond, K, Renals, S. (2019). in Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), INTERSPEECH. 2019.

Speaker-independent classification of phonetic segments from raw ultrasound in child speech.
Ribeiro, MS, Eshky, A, Richmond, K, Renals, S. in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 2019.

TaL: a synchronised multi-speaker corpus of ultrasound tongue imaging, audio, and lip videos.
Ribeiro, MS, Sanger, J, Zhang, JX, Eshky, A, Wrench, A, Richmond, K, & Renals, S (2021). Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT). Shenzhen, China.

Speech and Language Therapy Key Publications

Systematic review of ultrasound visual biofeedback in intervention for speech sound disorders
Sugden, E., Lloyd, S., Lam, J., Cleland, J. (2019). International Journal of Language Communications & Disorders.

ULTRAX2020 : Ultrasound Technology for Optimising the Treatment of Speech Disorders : Clinicians’ Resource Manual.
Cleland, J., Wrench, A., Lloyd, S., Sugden, E. Report. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. 2018.

Covert contrast and covert errors in persistent velar fronting.
Cleland, J., Scobbie, J. M., Heyde, C., Roxburgh, Z., Wrench, A. A. in Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 1-21. 2016.

Using ultrasound visual biofeedback to treat persistent primary speech sound disorders.
Cleland, J., Scobbie, J. M., & Wrench, A. A.. in Clinical linguistics & phonetics, 29(8-10), 575-597. 2015.