Kirrie J. Ballard

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2008-2022
Publications (10 Years): 10

Top Topics

Speech Recognition

Formant Frequencies

Autistic Children

Visual Feedback

Top Venues

SIGGRAPH ASIA Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications

ACM Trans. Access. Comput.

Publications

Tuende Szalay, Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard
Knowledge of accent differences can be used to predict speech recognition. INTERSPEECH (2022)
Adam Hair, Guanlong Zhao, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Assessing Posterior-Based Mispronunciation Detection on Field-Collected Recordings from Child Speech Therapy Sessions. Interspeech (2021)
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
AusKidTalk: An Auditory-Visual Corpus of 3- to 12-Year-Old Australian Children's Speech. Interspeech (2021)
Adam Hair, Kirrie J. Ballard, Constantina Markoulli, Penelope Monroe, Jacqueline McKechnie, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
A Longitudinal Evaluation of Tablet-Based Child Speech Therapy with Apraxia World. ACM Trans. Access. Comput. 14 (1) (2021)
Adam Hair, Constantina Markoulli, Penelope Monroe, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Preliminary Results From a Longitudinal Study of a Tablet-Based Speech Therapy Game. CHI Extended Abstracts (2020)
Adam Hair, Kirrie J. Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition for Child Speech Therapy Applications. ASSETS (2019)
Adam Hair, Penelope Monroe, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Apraxia world: a speech therapy game for children with speech sound disorders. IDC (2018)
Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Jim X. Ji, Kirrie J. Ballard
Anomaly Detection Approach for Pronunciation Verification of Disordered Speech Using Speech Attribute Features. INTERSPEECH (2018)
Avinash Parnandi, Virendra Karappa, Tian Lan, Mostafa Ali Shahin, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Development of a Remote Therapy Tool for Childhood Apraxia of Speech. ACM Trans. Access. Comput. 7 (3) (2015)
Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Avinash Parnandi, Virendra Karappa, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Tabby Talks: An automated tool for the assessment of childhood apraxia of speech. Speech Commun. 70 (2015)
Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
A comparison of GMM-HMM and DNN-HMM based pronunciation verification techniques for use in the assessment of childhood apraxia of speech. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard
Classification of lexical stress patterns using deep neural network architecture. SLT (2014)
Tian Lan, Sandesh Aryal, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Flappy voice: an interactive game for childhood apraxia of speech therapy. CHI PLAY (2014)
Chek Tien Tan, Andrew Johnston, Andrew Bluff, Sam Ferguson, Kirrie J. Ballard
Speech invaders & yak-man: retrogames for speech therapy. SIGGRAPH ASIA Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications (2014)
Chek Tien Tan, Andrew Johnston, Andrew Bluff, Sam Ferguson, Kirrie J. Ballard
Retrogaming as visual feedback for speech therapy. SIGGRAPH ASIA Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications (2014)
Chek Tien Tan, Andrew Johnston, Kirrie J. Ballard, Sam Ferguson, Dharani Perera-Schulz
sPeAK-MAN: towards popular gameplay for speech therapy. IE (2013)
Avinash Parnandi, Virendra Karappa, Youngpyo Son, Mostafa Ali Shahin, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Architecture of an automated therapy tool for childhood apraxia of speech. ASSETS (2013)
Mostafa Ali Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Kirrie J. Ballard
Automatic classification of unequal lexical stress patterns using machine learning algorithms. SLT (2012)
Sam Ferguson, Andrew Johnston, Kirrie J. Ballard, Chek Tien Tan, Dharani Perera-Schulz
Visual feedback of acoustic data for speech therapy: model and design parameters. Audio Mostly Conference (2012)
Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie J. Ballard, Donald A. Robin, Adam Jacks, Sallyanne Palethorpe, Kristin M. Rosen
An acoustic typology of apraxic speech - toward reliable diagnosis. INTERSPEECH (2008)