Kirrie J. Ballard

25 papers A 13Misc 3Journal 3Unranked 6

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	A	`conf`	AusKidTalk: Using Strategic Data Collection and Out-of-Domain Tools to Semi-Automate Novel Corpora Annotation. INTERSPEECH Tünde Szalay, Mostafa Shahin, Tharmakulasingam Sirojan, Zheng Nan, Renata Huang, Kirrie J. Ballard, Beena Ahmed
2025	A	`conf`	Constrained LDDMM for Dynamic Vocal Tract Morphing: Integrating Volumetric and Real-Time MRI. INTERSPEECH Tharinda Piyadasa, Joan Glaunès, Amelia Gully, Michael Proctor, Kirrie J. Ballard, Tünde Szalay, Naeim Sanaei, Sheryl Foster, David Waddington, Craig T. Jin
2025	A	`conf`	Lateral Channel Formation in Australian English /l/: Insights from Magnetic Resonance Imaging. INTERSPEECH Tünde Szalay, Michael Proctor, Amelia Gully, Tharinda Piyadasa, Craig T. Jin, David Waddington, Naeim Sanaei, Sheryl Foster, Kirrie J. Ballard
2025	A	`conf`	Rhotic Articulation in Australian English: Insights from MRI. INTERSPEECH Michael Proctor, Tünde Szalay, Tharinda Piyadasa, Craig T. Jin, Naeim Sanaei, Amelia Gully, David Waddington, Sheryl Foster, Kirrie J. Ballard
2024	A	`conf`	Towards Speech Classification from Acoustic and Vocal Tract data in Real-time MRI. INTERSPEECH Yaoyao Yue, Michael Proctor, Luping Zhou, Rijul Gupta, Tharinda Piyadasa, Amelia Gully, Kirrie J. Ballard, Craig T. Jin
2022	A	`conf`	Knowledge of accent differences can be used to predict speech recognition. INTERSPEECH Tünde Szalay, Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard
2021	J	`jnl`	A Longitudinal Evaluation of Tablet-Based Child Speech Therapy with Apraxia World. ACM Trans. Access. Comput. Adam Hair, Kirrie J. Ballard, Constantina Markoulli, Penelope Monroe, Jacqueline McKechnie, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
2021	A	`conf`	Assessing Posterior-Based Mispronunciation Detection on Field-Collected Recordings from Child Speech Therapy Sessions. Interspeech Adam Hair, Guanlong Zhao, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
2021	A	`conf`	AusKidTalk: An Auditory-Visual Corpus of 3- to 12-Year-Old Australian Children's Speech. Interspeech 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
2020	—	`conf`	Preliminary Results From a Longitudinal Study of a Tablet-Based Speech Therapy Game. CHI Extended Abstracts Adam Hair, Constantina Markoulli, Penelope Monroe, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
2019	A	`conf`	Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition for Child Speech Therapy Applications. ASSETS Adam Hair, Kirrie J. Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
2018	A	`conf`	Anomaly Detection Approach for Pronunciation Verification of Disordered Speech Using Speech Attribute Features. INTERSPEECH Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Jim X. Ji, Kirrie J. Ballard
2018	Misc	`conf`	Apraxia world: a speech therapy game for children with speech sound disorders. IDC Adam Hair, Penelope Monroe, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
2015	J	`jnl`	Development of a Remote Therapy Tool for Childhood Apraxia of Speech. ACM Trans. Access. Comput. Avinash Parnandi, Virendra Karappa, Tian Lan, Mostafa Ali Shahin, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
2015	J	`jnl`	Tabby Talks: An automated tool for the assessment of childhood apraxia of speech. Speech Commun. Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Avinash Parnandi, Virendra Karappa, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
2014	A	`conf`	A comparison of GMM-HMM and DNN-HMM based pronunciation verification techniques for use in the assessment of childhood apraxia of speech. INTERSPEECH Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
2014	—	`conf`	Classification of lexical stress patterns using deep neural network architecture. SLT Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard
2014	Misc	`conf`	Flappy voice: an interactive game for childhood apraxia of speech therapy. CHI PLAY Tian Lan, Sandesh Aryal, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
2014	—	`conf`	Retrogaming as visual feedback for speech therapy. SIGGRAPH ASIA Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications Chek Tien Tan, Andrew Johnston, Andrew Bluff, Sam Ferguson, Kirrie J. Ballard
2014	—	`conf`	Speech invaders & yak-man: retrogames for speech therapy. SIGGRAPH ASIA Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications Chek Tien Tan, Andrew Johnston, Andrew Bluff, Sam Ferguson, Kirrie J. Ballard
2013	A	`conf`	Architecture of an automated therapy tool for childhood apraxia of speech. ASSETS Avinash Parnandi, Virendra Karappa, Youngpyo Son, Mostafa Ali Shahin, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
2013	Misc	`conf`	sPeAK-MAN: towards popular gameplay for speech therapy. IE Chek Tien Tan, Andrew Johnston, Kirrie J. Ballard, Sam Ferguson, Dharani Perera-Schulz
2012	—	`conf`	Automatic classification of unequal lexical stress patterns using machine learning algorithms. SLT Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard
2012	—	`conf`	Visual feedback of acoustic data for speech therapy: model and design parameters. Audio Mostly Conference Sam Ferguson, Andrew Johnston, Kirrie J. Ballard, Chek Tien Tan, Dharani Perera-Schulz
2008	A	`conf`	An acoustic typology of apraxic speech - toward reliable diagnosis. INTERSPEECH Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Donald A. Robin, Adam Jacks, Sallyanne Palethorpe, Kristin M. Rosen