We have and provide research access to various facilities located in Speech and Hearing Sciences.

The joint EMA/EPG facility (Electromagnetic Articulography and Electopalatography) enables records of articulatory movements to be synchronized with the acoustic signal and is the only facility of its kind in the UK.

Our customized clinical studios have been designed to meet the needs of individuals with different forms of speech disorder, including older people and people with a physical disability.

The Ultrasound laboratory (here) enables simulanteous capture of acoustics, ultrasound images of the tongue surface, and EPG. This is the only speech-ultrasound facility outside North America, and unique in the way it combines ultrasound with EPG. A specially modified version of the Articulate Assistant software and hardware for EPG is used for data-collection and analysis.

Acoustic analysis software, perceptual-testing software, direct-to-disk recording studios, laryngography, nasometer, portable DAT equipment, digitial video and our computing network are also crucial facilities.

These facilities formed an important part of the successful Queen’s Anniversary Prize for clinical applications of speech sciences, and provide a unparallelled physical infrastructure for research in the future.