Kirrie J. Ballard

According to our database, Kirrie J. Ballard authored at least 25 papers between 2008 and 2025.

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2025

AusKidTalk: Using Strategic Data Collection and Out-of-Domain Tools to Semi-Automate Novel Corpora Annotation.

Tünde Szalay, Mostafa Shahin, Tharmakulasingam Sirojan, Zheng Nan, Renata Huang, Kirrie J. Ballard, Beena Ahmed

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2025

Lateral Channel Formation in Australian English /l/: Insights from Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Tünde Szalay, Michael Proctor, Amelia Gully, Tharinda Piyadasa, Craig T. Jin, David Waddington, Naeim Sanaei, Sheryl Foster, Kirrie J. Ballard

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2025

Rhotic Articulation in Australian English: Insights from MRI.

Michael Proctor, Tünde Szalay, Tharinda Piyadasa, Craig T. Jin, Naeim Sanaei, Amelia Gully, David Waddington, Sheryl Foster, Kirrie J. Ballard

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2025

Constrained LDDMM for Dynamic Vocal Tract Morphing: Integrating Volumetric and Real-Time MRI.

Tharinda Piyadasa, Joan Glaunès, Amelia Gully, Michael Proctor, Kirrie J. Ballard, Tünde Szalay, Naeim Sanaei, Sheryl Foster, David Waddington, Craig T. Jin

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2025

2024

Towards Speech Classification from Acoustic and Vocal Tract data in Real-time MRI.

Yaoyao Yue, Michael Proctor, Luping Zhou, Rijul Gupta, Tharinda Piyadasa, Amelia Gully, Kirrie J. Ballard, Craig T. Jin

Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2024

2022

Knowledge of accent differences can be used to predict speech recognition.

Tünde Szalay, Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2022

2021

A Longitudinal Evaluation of Tablet-Based Child Speech Therapy with Apraxia World.

Adam Hair, Kirrie J. Ballard, Constantina Markoulli, Penelope Monroe, Jacqueline McKechnie, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

ACM Trans. Access. Comput., 2021

Assessing Posterior-Based Mispronunciation Detection on Field-Collected Recordings from Child Speech Therapy Sessions.

Adam Hair, Guanlong Zhao, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia, August 30, 2021

AusKidTalk: An Auditory-Visual Corpus of 3- to 12-Year-Old Australian Children's Speech.

Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard, Denis Burnham, Tharmakulasingam Sirojan, Hadi Mehmood, Dominique Estival, Elise Baker, Felicity Cox, Joanne Arciuli, Titia Benders, Katherine Demuth, Barbara Kelly, Chloé Diskin-Holdaway, Mostafa Ali Shahin, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Julien Epps, Chwee Beng Lee, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia, August 30, 2021

2020

Preliminary Results From a Longitudinal Study of a Tablet-Based Speech Therapy Game.

Adam Hair, Constantina Markoulli, Penelope Monroe, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020

2019

Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition for Child Speech Therapy Applications.

Adam Hair, Kirrie J. Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2019

2018

Anomaly Detection Approach for Pronunciation Verification of Disordered Speech Using Speech Attribute Features.

Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Jim X. Ji, Kirrie J. Ballard

Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2018

Apraxia world: a speech therapy game for children with speech sound disorders.

Adam Hair, Penelope Monroe, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2018

2015

Development of a Remote Therapy Tool for Childhood Apraxia of Speech.

Avinash Parnandi, Virendra Karappa, Tian Lan, Mostafa Ali Shahin, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

ACM Trans. Access. Comput., 2015

Tabby Talks: An automated tool for the assessment of childhood apraxia of speech.

Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Avinash Parnandi, Virendra Karappa, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Speech Commun., 2015

2014

Classification of lexical stress patterns using deep neural network architecture.

Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2014

Speech invaders & yak-man: retrogames for speech therapy.

Chek Tien Tan, Andrew Johnston, Andrew Bluff, Sam Ferguson, Kirrie J. Ballard

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications, 2014

Retrogaming as visual feedback for speech therapy.

Chek Tien Tan, Andrew Johnston, Andrew Bluff, Sam Ferguson, Kirrie J. Ballard

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications, 2014

A comparison of GMM-HMM and DNN-HMM based pronunciation verification techniques for use in the assessment of childhood apraxia of speech.

Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014

Flappy voice: an interactive game for childhood apraxia of speech therapy.

Tian Lan, Sandesh Aryal, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCHI annual symposium on Computer-human interaction in play, Toronto, ON, Canada, October 19, 2014

2013

sPeAK-MAN: towards popular gameplay for speech therapy.

Chek Tien Tan, Andrew Johnston, Kirrie J. Ballard, Sam Ferguson, Dharani Perera-Schulz

Proceedings of the 9th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, 2013

Architecture of an automated therapy tool for childhood apraxia of speech.

Avinash Parnandi, Virendra Karappa, Youngpyo Son, Mostafa Ali Shahin, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2013

2012

Automatic classification of unequal lexical stress patterns using machine learning algorithms.

Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2012

Visual feedback of acoustic data for speech therapy: model and design parameters.

Sam Ferguson, Andrew Johnston, Kirrie J. Ballard, Chek Tien Tan, Dharani Perera-Schulz

Proceedings of the Audio Mostly 2012, 2012

2008

An acoustic typology of apraxic speech - toward reliable diagnosis.

Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Donald A. Robin, Adam Jacks, Sallyanne Palethorpe, Kristin M. Rosen

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008