Graduate researcher Arian Shamei‘s paper on speech in space goes “viral” on today’s highly popular platform, TikTok!
Check out the TikTok post from ‘Jake the Linguist’ here for a brief overview of the study.
Undergraduate Researchers Selected to Present at LSURC 2021
Congratulations to ISRL undergraduate researchers Elisabeth Kang, Linda Wu, and Nicole Ebbutt for being selected to give an oral presentation titled ‘An Analysis of Vowel Space in English Speakers with Alzheimer’s Disease: Toward Building an Automatic Detection Model’ at UBC’s February 2021 Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference.
12th International Seminar on Speech Production
Congratulations to the lab members and collaborators who presented at ISSP 2020!
Ultra-Arti-Synth – Articulatory Vowel Synthesis from Ultrasound Tongue by Pramit Saha, Yadong Liu, Bryan Gick and Sidney Fels
Talking while smiling: Suppression in an embodied model of coarticulation by Yadong Liu, Terrina Chan, Gracellia Purnomo and Bryan Gick
Thank you to everyone on the conference committees who made this amazing conference possible, and to all of the presenters who contributed outstanding work to the field of speech production!
179th Meeting of the American Acoustical Society – Acoustics Virtually Everywhere
Congratulations to our lab members and collaborators who presented at the 179th Meeting of the American Acoustical Society – Acoustics Virtually Everywhere, December 7-11!
The effect of virtual reality environments on auditory memory by Arian Shamei, Chloë Farr, Yadong Liu and Bryan Gick
Laryngeal-acoustic relations in smiled speech by Gillian de Boer, Donald Derrick, Murray Schellenberg and Bryan Gick
Users’ head movement obtained from avatars in social VR applications by Chloë Farr, Yadong Liu, Arian Shamei and Bryan Gick
Visual feedback and self-monitoring in speech learning via hand movement by Yadong Liu, Pramit Saha and Bryan Gick
Thank you to the organizers of the conference for all of the enormous amount of work that was put into making this conference happen!
Bryan Gick awarded AAAS fellowship
The Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) elected Bryan Gick as an AAAS fellow. The title recognizes Prof Gick’s important contributions to experimental phonetics. The lifetime distinction will be celebrated virtually at the AAAS Annual Meeting February 13th, 2020. https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-announces-leading-scientists-elected-2020-fellows
New Website 2019
Welcome to our new website where we will be giving you updates on our labs’ most recent activities!
Graduate Student and Post Doctoral Fellow Research Day
Join us on May 13th, 2019 9:30am-5:30 am at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre to celebrate research done by our graduate students. For more details: https://languagesciences.ubc.ca/news-events/events/jan-22-2019-graduate-student-and-postdoctoral-fellow-research-day
50th year Anniversary
50th year Anniversary celebration of the Stores Road Annex will be held on April 17th, 2019!
Acoustics Week in Victoria 2018
New ISRL Website!
Check out our new ISRL website at https://blogs.ubc.ca/isrl/!