Author: Sam

We are please to announce the release of the Tongue and Lips (TaL) corpus. This is a multi-speaker corpus of ultrasound images of the tongue and video images of lips. This corpus contains synchronised imaging data of extraoral (lips) and intraoral (tongue) articulators from 82 native speakers of English. The corpus is distributed with the […]

We are please to announce the release of the Cleft dataset of child speech. This is a collection of ultrasound images of the tongue and audio data collected from 29 children with cleft lip and palate by a speech and language therapist. This data is distributed with the Ultrasuite Repository. Please find further details here.

Fabienne Westerberg joined Ultrax2020 in February 2020! She is in the final stages of completing her PhD at the University of Glasgow, where she has been studying vowel production in Swedish using ultrasound tongue imaging. She will be working on the Clinical Track of the Ultrax 2020 project with Joanne Cleland at the University of […]

Congratulations to Sam Ribeiro, who received a Research Incentive Grant from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland to conduct a research project on ultrasound tongue imaging. Jenny Sanger was welcomed to the project as a Research Assistant to help with data collection. We are hoping to collect ultrasound images of the tongue and […]

Aciel Eshky and Sam Ribeiro attended the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Interspeech 2019, which took place in Graz, Austria. Aciel presented a poster describing the work in the paper Synchronising audio and ultrasound by learning cross-modal embeddings. The paper and the poster are available online. Sam gave an oral […]