Ultrasound Tongue Imaging research facilities at Craighall are based in our new laboratories. To make a booking or for other details of use, please contact Steve Cowen.

We use software and hardware from Articulate Instruments Ltd, a commercial company run by Dr Alan Wrench with whom we have a close relationship for research and development. The equipment and software is available for commercial purchase, and is fully supported.

Key features:

• four ultrasound machines
• two headsets to support the probe
• dedicated data capture and analysis within the same software package to ensure temporal synchronisation (multuple copies of "AAA")
• comprehensive analysis tool including tongue-curve fitting, annotation and export
• 4 terabytes of dedicated storage
• multi-channel set up with support for simultaneous EPG and motion capture.

Articulate Instruments website can be consulted for up-to-date documentation. See also this 2008 poster [pdf] for some methodological protocols.

We also support EMA research via our joint EPSRC-funded facility comprising two Carstens AG-500 3D machines with EPG, housed at the new Informatics Building, University of Edinburgh, led by Dr Alice Turk.

History - ultrasound development to 2007 at Corstorphine

Phase 1 (2002-2006): information about video-based Ultrasound Tongue Imaging, Electropalatography, and our stabilisation helmet.

Phase 2 (2006-2009): information about dedicated digital UTI, corpora, fieldwork: <coming soon, meantime see "protocols">

Speech Science Research Centre
Queen Margaret University
Queen Margaret University Drive
Musselburgh
East Lothian EH21 6UU
Scotland, UK

0131 474 0000