The wide range of tools and applications available today offer promising solutions for the
facilitation of pronunciation training, one of the most challenging and often neglected areas …

Growing evidence suggests that speech intervention using visual biofeedback may benefit
people for whom visual skills are stronger than auditory skills (for example, the hearing …

Lip reading relies on visible articulators to ease speech understanding. However, lips and
face alone provide very incomplete phonetic information: the tongue, that is generally not …

Purpose To quantify the articulatory distinctiveness of 8 major English vowels and 11
English consonants based on tongue and lip movement time series data using a data-driven …

Pronunciation errors may be caused by several different deviations from the target, such as
voicing, intonation, insertions or deletions of segments, or that the articulators are placed …

This paper reviews interactive methods for improving the phonetic competence of subjects in
the case of second language learning as well as in the case of speech therapy for subjects …

Pronunciation training based on speech production techniques illustrating tongue
movements is gaining popularity. However, there is not sufficient evidence that learners can …

Orofacial clones can display speech articulation in an augmented mode, ie display all major
speech articulators, including those usually hidden such as the tongue or the velum …

Visual biofeedback tools, such as Electropalatography (EPG), are recommended for
assessing and treating speech sound disorders (SSDs) associated with Cleft Palate (CP) …

Speakers possess a natural capacity for lip reading; analogous to this, there may be an
intuitive ability to “tongue-read.” Although the ability of untrained participants to perceive …