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 […]
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Ultrax Attends Motor Speech 2020
Project member Joanne Cleland presented a poster on “Ultrasound Aided versus Perception-Based Phonetic Transcription of Childhood Speech Sound Disorders” at the Motor Speech Conference in Santa Barbara, California. https://www.madonna.org/motor-speech-conference
Project: silent speech interfaces for all
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 […]
Ultrax attended Interspeech 2019
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 […]
Ultrasound Workshop held at Strathclyde University
On the 10th, 11th and 12th of September 2019, members of the Ultrax2020 team ran a professional development workshop on using ultrasound in clinical practice. Close to 20 Speech and Language Therapists travelled from all over Scotland, from London, from other areas in England and from Ireland to attend the 3-day course, which was run […]
