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 …

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 …

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 …

Ultrasound technology is safe, relatively affordable, and capable of real-time performance.
Recently, it has been employed to visualize tongue function for second language education …

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 …

The progress of deep convolutional neural networks has been successfully exploited in
various real-time computer vision tasks such as image classification and segmentation …

Ultrasound is one of the primary technologies used for clinical purposes. Ultrasound
systems have favorable real-time capabilities, are fast and relatively inexpensive, portable …

Ultrasound imaging is safe, relatively affordable, and capable of real-time performance. One
application of this technology is to visualize and to characterize human tongue shape and …

In most silent speech research, continuously observing tongue movements is crucial, thus
requiring the use of ultrasound to extract tongue contours. Precisely and in real-time …

Ultrasound (US) imaging is an excellent means of observing tongue motion during speech.
Tracking the tongue contour in US video is required for analysis of this motion, but most …