One of the hardest questions parents ask is whether their child’s speech is developing on track. WISC Lab researchers developed intelligibility growth curves for typically developing children between ages 2;6 and nearly 10 years…
Automated forced alignment tools — widely used to time-align transcripts with audio — were built primarily on adult speech. WISC Lab research has documented how alignment errors affect automated pronunciation scoring in children, and a new tunable system based on deep learning addresses some of these limitations. If you’re building or using pipelines that include …
New research from the WISC Lab followed children with cerebral palsy from early childhood into late elementary school. The findings, published in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in the Schools, show that communication profiles measured at age two are meaningful predictors of outcomes years later; but the relationship is far from deterministic. Some children show …
Here’s an infographic on the various cutting edge resources that are finding their place in clinical and research workflows. This is important because…
Here’s what we recently discovered in the realm of Speech Language Pathology, this digram depicts XYZ and makes it easier to understand ZYX.
If you are interested in learning about the research being done at the Waisman Center, check out this page! Upcoming events include “Day with the Experts: Cerebral Palsy” on 11/2/2019 at 9 AM and “Day with the Experts: Autism” on 1/18/2020.
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