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Publications, conference presentations and media reports

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.

Automatic Scoring of Children’s Speech Sound Disorders from Ultrasound and Audio
Cleland, J; Ribeiro, MS; Sugden, E; Eshky, A; Richmond, K; Wrench, A; Renals, S. (2020, November). Proposal accepted at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Diego, CA (Convention cancelled).

Ultrax2020: Ultrasound-based Technologies for Speech Therapy
Eshky, A; Ribeiro, MS; Richmond, K; Renals, S. (2020). Poster presented at
AI for Social Good, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics.

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.

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.

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

Ultrasound visual biofeedback in intervention for speech sound disorders: a systematic review of the evidence.
Sugden, E., Lloyd, S., Cleland, J., Isles, J. (2018, October). Poster presented at the International Clinical Phonetics & Linguistics Association Conference, St Julian’s, Malta.

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.

Towards Robust Word Alignment of Child Speech Therapy Sessions.
Ribeiro, M. S., Eshky, A., Richmond, K., & Renals, S. (2018, June) UK Speech Conference. Dublin, Ireland

Gradient change in lingual gestures acquired during speech therapy.
Scobbie, J. M., & Cleland, J. (2018). Poster presented at LabPhon16. Lisbon, Portugal.

Visualising speech: identification of atypical tongue-shape patterns in the speech of children with cleft lip and palate using ultrasound technology.
Lloyd, S., Cleland, J., Crampin, L., Campbell, L., Zharkova, N., & Palo, J-P. (2018). Poster session presented at Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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

A multilinear tongue model derived from speech related MRI data of the human vocal tract
Hewer, A., Wuhrer, S., Steiner, I., & Richmond, K. (2018) . Computer Speech & Language, 2018.

Insights from ultrasound: Enhancing our understanding of clinical phonetics
Cleland, J., Scobbie, J., & Zharkova, N. (2016). Clinical linguistics & phonetics, 30(3-5), 171-173.

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

A statistical shape space model of the palate surface trained on 3D MRI scans of the vocal tract
A. Hewer, I. Steiner, T. Bolkart, S. Wuhrer, and K. Richmond, “,” in 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), August 10-14, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2015.

Helping children learn non-native articulations: the implications for ultrasound-based clinical intervention
Cleland, J., Scobbie, J. M., Nakai, S., & Wrench, A. A. (2015). Proceedings of the 18th ICPhS, Glasgow, UK

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

Onset vs. Coda Asymmetry in the Articulation of English/r/
Scobbie, J. M., Lawson, E., Nakai, S., Cleland, J., & Stuart-Smith, J. (2015). Proceedings of the 18th ICPhS, Glasgow, UK.

Speech animation using electromagnetic articulography as motion capture data
I. Steiner, K. Richmond, and S. Ouni (2013) in 12th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP-13) at Interspeech, August 29 – September 1, Annecy, France, 2013, pp. 55–60.

Tongue reading: Comparing the interpretation of visual information from inside the mouth, from electropalatographic and ultrasound displays of speech sounds
Cleland, J., McCron, C. & Scobbie, J.M. (2013) . Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 27 (4), 299-311.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of ExtIPA Sounds in Phonetically Trained Speakers
Cleland, J., Scobbie, J.M., Wrench, A. and Semple, S. (2012). International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Asscociation, University College Cork, 27-30 June, 2012.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Ultrasound Tongue Imaging of the IPA and ExtIPA
Cleland, J., Scobbie, J.M., Wrench, A. and Semple, S. (2012) . British Association of Academic Phoneticians, University of Leeds, 26-28 March, 2012.

Ultrax: An Animated Midsagittal Vocal Tract Display for Speech Therapy
Richmond, K and Renals, S. (2012). Proc. Interspeech.

Comparing articulatory images: An MRI / Ultrasound Tongue Image database
Cleland, Wrench, Scobbie & Semple(2011). Proceedings of the 9th International Seminar on Speech Production . pp. 163-170.

Visual Feedback for Children with Speech Sound Disorders
Cleland, Scobbie & Wrench (2011) Poster presented at the 3rd Colloquium of the British Association of Clinical Linguistics, 11th-12th April, 2011, Leeds, UK.

An ultrasound protocol for comparing tongue contours: upright vs. supine
Wrench, Cleland & Scobbie (2011). Proceedings of 17th ICPhS, Hong Kong . pp. 2161-2164.