Lingual ultrasound imaging is essential in linguistic research and speech recognition. It has
been used widely in different applications as visual feedback to enhance language learning …

Speech is a complex process involving a wide range of biosignals, including but not limited
to acoustics. These biosignals-stemming from the articulators, the articulator muscle …

Automatic feature extraction from images of speech articulators is currently achieved by
detecting edges. Here, we investigate the use of pose estimation deep neural nets with …

We present the Tongue and Lips corpus (TaL), a multi-speaker corpus of audio, ultrasound
tongue imaging, and lip videos. TaL consists of two parts: TaL1 is a set of six recording …

Characterizing tongue shape and motion, as they appear in real-time ultrasound (US)
images, is of interest to the study of healthy and impaired speech production. Quantitative …

We introduce UltraSuite, a curated repository of ultrasound and acoustic data, collected from
recordings of child speech therapy sessions. This release includes three data collections …

One application of medical ultrasound imaging is to visualize and characterize human
tongue shape and motion in real-time to study healthy or impaired speech production. Due …

Speech production mechanisms can be characterized at a peripheral level by both their
acoustic and articulatory traces along time. Researchers have thus developed very large …

Acoustic and articulatory studies demonstrate covert contrast in perceptually neutralised
phonemic contrasts in both typical children and children with speech disorders. These covert …

For speech research, ultrasound tongue imaging provides a non-invasive means for
visualizing tongue position and movement during articulation. Extracting tongue contours …