Author: Sam

Aciel Eshky, Sam Ribeiro, and Steve Renals attended the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), which took place in Brighton, UK. They have presented the paper Speaker-independent classification of phonetic segments from raw ultrasound in child speech, which can be found here.

We have now officially started data collection for the Ultrax2020 project. On the 11th February this year our first participants completed their ultrasound recordings. Since then, our clinical partners have completed ultrasound assessments with over 20 children with speech sound disorders! As part of the ultrasound assessment, children wear a headset holding an ultrasound probe […]

We are pleased to announce that a new clinical partner has joined the Ultrax2020 project! We are very excited that The Nuffield Speech and Hearing Centre at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) have signed onto the project and will assist with data collection. The Nuffield speech clinic provides specialist assessment of speech for children with […]

Aciel Eshky and Sam Ribeiro attended the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Interspeech 2018, which took place in Hyderabad India. Aciel gave an oral presentation describing the work in the paper titled UltraSuite: A Repository of Ultrasound and Acoustic Data from Child Speech Therapy Sessions. The paper can be found here and […]

Ultrax releases UltraSuite: A repository of ultrasound and acoustic data from child speech therapy sessions. UltraSuite is a curated repository of ultrasound and acoustic data, collected from recordings of child speech therapy sessions. This release includes three data collections, one from typically developing children (Ultrax Typically developing, UXTD) and two from children with speech sound […]