As modern science and technology constantly progresses, the fields of artificial intelligence,
mixed reality technology, remote technology, etc. have rapidly developed. Meanwhile, these …

B-mode ultrasound has emerged as a prevalent tool for observing tongue motion in speech
production, gaining traction in speech therapy applications. However, the effective analysis …

ABSTRACT A great variety of tools are available for analysing speech data, but few permit
simultaneous annotation of audio, articulatory and other modalities. Being able to view …

Abstract A 3D/4D ultrasound analysis of Ukrainian back fricatives provides evidence for
onset lenition (debuccalization) and non-markedness reducing place neutralization in the …

Medical scanning techniques bring the revolution in the health sector by incorporating
cutting-edge scanning technology and methods which achieved significant progress to …

Background: Once data collection is finished, ultrasound recordings of speech articulation
must be visualized and analyzed. A number of integrated software packages have been …

Ultrasound tongue imaging is widely used for speech production research, and it has
attracted increasing attention as its potential applications seem to be evident in many …

1 Introduction Ultrasound scanning technology has numerous impacts in healthcare which
allows to scan patients' anatomy as well as their physiological characteristics in noninvasive …

Background: There are a number of published methods for extracting mid-sagittal tongue
contours from two-dimensional ultrasound (2D-US) images (eg Li et al., 2005; Roussos et …

Professional voice actors are an excellent, but fairly untapped population for linguistic study.
These actors are linguistically naïve but perform complex linguistic tasks throughout the …