HCSNet Workshop: Advances in Speech Production

This week I attended the HCSNet Workshop: Advances in Speech Production: Tools, Techniques and Recent Research at University of Western Sydney, Milperra.
There were many distinguished speakers:

• Christian Kroos (MARCS Labs, UWS) Making speech production transparent: The AHAA and Face & Voice laboratories at MARCS
• Douglas Whalen (Haskins Laboratories, U.S.A.). Ultrasound investigation of speech articulation dynamics
• Mark Tiede (Haskins Labs & MIT, U.S.A.). Uses and abuses of ElectroMagnetic Articulometry (EMA)
• Andy Butcher (Flinders U) Electropalatography (EPG): Tracking the spatio-temporal patterns of tongue-palate contact.
• Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson (U British Columbia, Canada). Time to re-think temporal control of communicative behavior
• Roland Goecke (U Canberra). Tracking faces without artificial markers

I co-presented 2 papers:

• Adaptation to the electropalatograph (EPG) palate: Consonant acoustics, listener perceptions, and speaker rating (Sharynne McLeod and Jeff Searl)
• Combining ultrasound and electropalatography (EPG) for research into speech production (Sharynne McLeod and Alan Wrench)