Lancaster University Phonetics Lab
@phoneticslab.bsky.social
Research group in phonetics and speech science at Lancaster University
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Very happy to have been awarded an APEX grant for a project on “Interpretable acoustic-articulatory relations in speech production” w/ co-investigators Anton Ragni & Aneta Stefanovska. The plan is to do some interesting speech research at the intersection of linguistics, physics & computer science!
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 APEX Awards, granted to ten researchers to pursue innovative, interdisciplinary research. The awards are supported by the @leverhulme.ac.uk and delivered in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering and @royalsociety.org: buff.ly/eF30SQq
August 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Very happy to have been awarded an APEX grant for a project on “Interpretable acoustic-articulatory relations in speech production” w/ co-investigators Anton Ragni & Aneta Stefanovska. The plan is to do some interesting speech research at the intersection of linguistics, physics & computer science!
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Plotting your spectral slices in R will soon be a lot easier!
July 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Plotting your spectral slices in R will soon be a lot easier!
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Needed to take my daughter into work for a short time today so while there our amazing @phoneticslab.bsky.social let her ultrasound her tongue! She thought it was very, very cool.
July 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Needed to take my daughter into work for a short time today so while there our amazing @phoneticslab.bsky.social let her ultrasound her tongue! She thought it was very, very cool.
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We are very excited that Samuel Schmück has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship for a great project on speech analytics and under-represented language varieties in speech technology. Many congratulations Sam!
@samschmueck.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
@samschmueck.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
Sam Schmück awarded Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship - Lancaster University
Congratulations to Sam Schmück for being awarded a highly prestigious Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship!
www.lancaster.ac.uk
June 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
We are very excited that Samuel Schmück has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship for a great project on speech analytics and under-represented language varieties in speech technology. Many congratulations Sam!
@samschmueck.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
@samschmueck.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
We're looking forward to INTERSPEECH 2025!! @interspeech.bsky.social #Interspeech2025
We have two papers accepted at #Interspeech2025! ✨
➡️ Nosey: Open-source hardware for acoustic nasalance
arxiv.org/abs/2505.23339
➡️ Articulatory strategy in vowel production as a basis for speaker discrimination
arxiv.org/abs/2505.20995
+ I'll also be giving a survey talk!
See you in Rotterdam! 🇳🇱
➡️ Nosey: Open-source hardware for acoustic nasalance
arxiv.org/abs/2505.23339
➡️ Articulatory strategy in vowel production as a basis for speaker discrimination
arxiv.org/abs/2505.20995
+ I'll also be giving a survey talk!
See you in Rotterdam! 🇳🇱
June 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
We're looking forward to INTERSPEECH 2025!! @interspeech.bsky.social #Interspeech2025
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Multivariate analyses of tongue contours from ultrasound tongue imaging
stefanocoretta.github.io
May 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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And also a paper accepted at CogSci 2025! ✨
➡️ Phonetic accommodation and inhibition in a dynamic neural field model
arxiv.org/abs/2502.01210
➡️ Phonetic accommodation and inhibition in a dynamic neural field model
arxiv.org/abs/2502.01210
May 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
And also a paper accepted at CogSci 2025! ✨
➡️ Phonetic accommodation and inhibition in a dynamic neural field model
arxiv.org/abs/2502.01210
➡️ Phonetic accommodation and inhibition in a dynamic neural field model
arxiv.org/abs/2502.01210
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As part of the #ViTraLiP transnational course, our virtual guest was @samkirkham.bsky.social from Lancaster University. During our exchange in #Paris, we were able to attend his talk at the #SRPP colloquium. Thanks to @lppparis.bsky.social for inviting us! Read more here: tinyurl.com/vitralip.
May 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
As part of the #ViTraLiP transnational course, our virtual guest was @samkirkham.bsky.social from Lancaster University. During our exchange in #Paris, we were able to attend his talk at the #SRPP colloquium. Thanks to @lppparis.bsky.social for inviting us! Read more here: tinyurl.com/vitralip.
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2. Nosey: Open-source hardware for acoustic nasalance - led by PhD student Maya Dewhurst, with Jack Collins, Roy Alderton & Sam Kirkham
(psst there's 3D printing in there)
(psst there's 3D printing in there)
May 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
2. Nosey: Open-source hardware for acoustic nasalance - led by PhD student Maya Dewhurst, with Jack Collins, Roy Alderton & Sam Kirkham
(psst there's 3D printing in there)
(psst there's 3D printing in there)
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We've got 2 papers accepted to #Interspeech2025 (although you'll only see my collaborators and not me at Rotterdam 🥲):
1. Articulatory strategy in vowel production as a basis for speaker discrimination - with Pat Strycharczuk & Sam Kirkham
@phoneticslab.bsky.social
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social
1. Articulatory strategy in vowel production as a basis for speaker discrimination - with Pat Strycharczuk & Sam Kirkham
@phoneticslab.bsky.social
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
We've got 2 papers accepted to #Interspeech2025 (although you'll only see my collaborators and not me at Rotterdam 🥲):
1. Articulatory strategy in vowel production as a basis for speaker discrimination - with Pat Strycharczuk & Sam Kirkham
@phoneticslab.bsky.social
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social
1. Articulatory strategy in vowel production as a basis for speaker discrimination - with Pat Strycharczuk & Sam Kirkham
@phoneticslab.bsky.social
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social
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✨Discovering dynamical laws for speech gestures ✨
➡️ I’m delighted to announce my new article out today in Cognitive Science, where I discover simple mathematical laws that govern articulatory control in speech.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@cogscisociety.bsky.social
➡️ I’m delighted to announce my new article out today in Cognitive Science, where I discover simple mathematical laws that govern articulatory control in speech.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@cogscisociety.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
✨Discovering dynamical laws for speech gestures ✨
➡️ I’m delighted to announce my new article out today in Cognitive Science, where I discover simple mathematical laws that govern articulatory control in speech.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@cogscisociety.bsky.social
➡️ I’m delighted to announce my new article out today in Cognitive Science, where I discover simple mathematical laws that govern articulatory control in speech.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@cogscisociety.bsky.social
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Hot off the press! My tutorial on ultrasound data collection & analysis is now out. Open Access. Part of a special issue in the Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, with lots of other cool studies. Articulatory phonetics is going strong in Japan!
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/onse...
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/onse...
Quantifying Between-Speaker Variation in Ultrasound Tongue Imaging Data
This article outlines a quantitative, between-group comparison of tongue shapes using ultrasound tongue imaging, one of the vocal tract imaging techni …
www.jstage.jst.go.jp
April 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Hot off the press! My tutorial on ultrasound data collection & analysis is now out. Open Access. Part of a special issue in the Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, with lots of other cool studies. Articulatory phonetics is going strong in Japan!
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/onse...
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/onse...
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We had a great time at Campus in the City last week, where hundreds of people engaged with our activities on beatboxing ultrasound, language escape rooms, gender representation in animated films, Lancashire accent quiz, nasal visualisation, and more!
April 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
We had a great time at Campus in the City last week, where hundreds of people engaged with our activities on beatboxing ultrasound, language escape rooms, gender representation in animated films, Lancashire accent quiz, nasal visualisation, and more!
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April 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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We had a brilliant time at Lancaster University's public engagement festival, Campus in the City, yesterday! We engaged with 260 people in Morecambe with ultrasound, nasalance, accent quizzes, gender and language, and a grammar escape room! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We had a brilliant time at Lancaster University's public engagement festival, Campus in the City, yesterday! We engaged with 260 people in Morecambe with ultrasound, nasalance, accent quizzes, gender and language, and a grammar escape room! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @phoneticslab.bsky.social
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I wrote some software that visualises real-time nasalance for our @phoneticslab.bsky.social public engagement event this week!
We use two microphones to capture oral and nasal signals, separated by a baffle, and map each signal's amplitude to a visual representation of the face!
We use two microphones to capture oral and nasal signals, separated by a baffle, and map each signal's amplitude to a visual representation of the face!
April 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I wrote some software that visualises real-time nasalance for our @phoneticslab.bsky.social public engagement event this week!
We use two microphones to capture oral and nasal signals, separated by a baffle, and map each signal's amplitude to a visual representation of the face!
We use two microphones to capture oral and nasal signals, separated by a baffle, and map each signal's amplitude to a visual representation of the face!
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Our new paper on "Dimensionality Reduction in Lingual Articulation of Vowels" is now out in Language & Speech!
How should we quantify tongue shape in vowel production? We evaluate various measures and identify multi-dimensional measures for vowel analysis.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
How should we quantify tongue shape in vowel production? We evaluate various measures and identify multi-dimensional measures for vowel analysis.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
March 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Our new paper on "Dimensionality Reduction in Lingual Articulation of Vowels" is now out in Language & Speech!
How should we quantify tongue shape in vowel production? We evaluate various measures and identify multi-dimensional measures for vowel analysis.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
How should we quantify tongue shape in vowel production? We evaluate various measures and identify multi-dimensional measures for vowel analysis.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Spring reading! Looking forward to (slowly) making it through the four volumes of “Foundational papers in complexity science” @sfiscience.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Spring reading! Looking forward to (slowly) making it through the four volumes of “Foundational papers in complexity science” @sfiscience.bsky.social
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Great SRPP (@lppparis.bsky.social) talk on speech modelling by @samkirkham.bsky.social (@phoneticslab.bsky.social) 👅 A very clear overview of why we should care about modelling and the considerations that need to be made when creating new models. 🧠
February 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Great SRPP (@lppparis.bsky.social) talk on speech modelling by @samkirkham.bsky.social (@phoneticslab.bsky.social) 👅 A very clear overview of why we should care about modelling and the considerations that need to be made when creating new models. 🧠
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New open access paper in Speech Communication on “nasal coarticulation in Lombard speech”: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I argue that, in Lombard speech, coarticulatory vowel nasality falls amid a compressed range of nasalisation, but coarticulation is maintained
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I argue that, in Lombard speech, coarticulatory vowel nasality falls amid a compressed range of nasalisation, but coarticulation is maintained
@phoneticslab.bsky.social
Nasal coarticulation in Lombard speech
Speaking in noisy environments entails a multitude of adaptations to speech production. Such modifications are expected to reduce gestural overlap bet…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
New open access paper in Speech Communication on “nasal coarticulation in Lombard speech”: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I argue that, in Lombard speech, coarticulatory vowel nasality falls amid a compressed range of nasalisation, but coarticulation is maintained
@phoneticslab.bsky.social
I argue that, in Lombard speech, coarticulatory vowel nasality falls amid a compressed range of nasalisation, but coarticulation is maintained
@phoneticslab.bsky.social
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It was my great privilege to give a talk yesterday at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, hosted by the Language Documentation Centre, Department of General and Indo-European Linguistics.
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February 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
It was my great privilege to give a talk yesterday at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, hosted by the Language Documentation Centre, Department of General and Indo-European Linguistics.
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social
@phoneticslab.bsky.social
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social
@phoneticslab.bsky.social
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Scaling laws for nonlinear dynamical models of articulatory control
➡️ My new article out today in JASA Express Letters, in which I present some new advances on nonlinear task dynamic models of articulatory speech movements.
🔗 doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
@asa-news.bsky.social
➡️ My new article out today in JASA Express Letters, in which I present some new advances on nonlinear task dynamic models of articulatory speech movements.
🔗 doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
@asa-news.bsky.social
Scaling laws for nonlinear dynamical models of articulatory control
Dynamical theories of speech use computational models of articulatory control to generate quantitative predictions and advance understanding of speech dynamics.
doi.org
February 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Scaling laws for nonlinear dynamical models of articulatory control
➡️ My new article out today in JASA Express Letters, in which I present some new advances on nonlinear task dynamic models of articulatory speech movements.
🔗 doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
@asa-news.bsky.social
➡️ My new article out today in JASA Express Letters, in which I present some new advances on nonlinear task dynamic models of articulatory speech movements.
🔗 doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
@asa-news.bsky.social
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We are delighted to welcome Dr Anton Malmi, who has started a 3-year postdoc in @phoneticslab.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social funded by the Estonian Research Council! Anton will be investigating the acquisition of palatalisation in Estonian children using ultrasound tongue imaging.
January 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
We are delighted to welcome Dr Anton Malmi, who has started a 3-year postdoc in @phoneticslab.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social funded by the Estonian Research Council! Anton will be investigating the acquisition of palatalisation in Estonian children using ultrasound tongue imaging.
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New paper out with colleagues from @phoneticslab.bsky.social
'Articulatory phonetics in the market: combining public engagement with ultrasound data collection'
doi.org/10.1515/ling...
@samkirkham.bsky.social @takayukinagamine.bsky.social @pamelaforster.bsky.social
@justinjhlo.bsky.social
'Articulatory phonetics in the market: combining public engagement with ultrasound data collection'
doi.org/10.1515/ling...
@samkirkham.bsky.social @takayukinagamine.bsky.social @pamelaforster.bsky.social
@justinjhlo.bsky.social
Articulatory phonetics in the market: combining public engagement with ultrasound data collection
This paper is a methodological contribution outlining an approach we have developed to recording ultrasound tongue imaging and audio research data as part of public engagement work. The paper is based...
doi.org
December 19, 2024 at 10:28 AM
New paper out with colleagues from @phoneticslab.bsky.social
'Articulatory phonetics in the market: combining public engagement with ultrasound data collection'
doi.org/10.1515/ling...
@samkirkham.bsky.social @takayukinagamine.bsky.social @pamelaforster.bsky.social
@justinjhlo.bsky.social
'Articulatory phonetics in the market: combining public engagement with ultrasound data collection'
doi.org/10.1515/ling...
@samkirkham.bsky.social @takayukinagamine.bsky.social @pamelaforster.bsky.social
@justinjhlo.bsky.social