
Brain2Speech
HCT Lab + ISRL Lab
Realizing state-of-the-art brain computer interfaces and 3D
biomechanical articulatory speech synthesis.
People

Sid Fels
Professor, Director (HCT Lab)

Bryan Gick
Professor, Director (ISRL Lab)

Najeeb Khan
Adjunct Professor

Debasish Ray Mohapatra
PhD Student (HCT Lab)

Arian Shamei
PhD Student (ISRL Lab)

Yadong Liu
PhD Student (ISRL Lab)

Eric Easthope
M.A.Sc. Student (HCT Lab)

Yuanpei Gao
M.A.Sc. Student (HCT Lab)
Research

Talking Tube
Vocal tract acoustic modelling using FDTD

Postural Speech Control
Cortical evidence for speech motor articulatory settings

Continuous Generative Control
Speech motor control modelling using GANs

Moves Made Easy
Human motor control effort reduction using deep learning with categorical perceptual constraints

Reaching task feedforward controller using reinforcement learning with soft actor-critic
Contact
Human Communication Technologies Lab
x427/x509, ICICS X-Wing
2366 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC, Canada
V6T 1Z4
Tel: +1 (604) 822-4583
Website:
brain2speech.github.io
Email: ssfels at ece.ubc.ca
Publications
2021
Debasish Ray Mohapatra; Victor Zappi; Sidney Fels
A comparative study of two-dimensional vocal tract acoustic modeling based on Finite-Difference Time-Domain methods
arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.04588, 2021. [Article]
Pramit Saha; Debasish Ray Mohapatra; Sidney Fels
SPEAK WITH YOUR HANDS Using Continuous Hand Gestures to control Articulatory Speech Synthesizer
arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.01640, 2021. [Article]
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2020
Bryan Gick; Connor Mayer; Chenhao Chiu; Erik Widing; Fran{ç}ois Roewer-Després; Sidney Fels; Ian Stavness
Quantal biomechanical effects in speech postures of the lips
Journal of neurophysiology, 2020. [Article]
Pramit Saha; Yadong Liu; Bryan Gick; Sidney Fels
Ultra2speech-a deep learning framework for formant frequency estimation and tracking from ultrasound tongue images
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2020. [Inproceedings]