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Hear about Language Explorer on the FSF podcast
Last week Rebecca caught up with Stephen from the Foundation Stage Forum podcast to provide an update on the Language Explorer. The...

Rebecca Bright
Oct 1, 20211 min read
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Interspeech2021: Parental Spoken Scaffolding & Narrative Skills in Crowd-Sourced Story Samples
Our interdisciplinary article looking at what happened when we noticed that (despite instructions) parents were observed to speak during...

Rebecca Bright
Aug 31, 20211 min read
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Digital technology, broadband access and inequalities
Digital technology has the potential to reduce health inequalities by enabling people to access information and tools to help better...

Rebecca Bright
Aug 12, 20211 min read
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Transcription and language analysis are just difficult!
Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) transcribe language samples and analyse them linguistically to help assess and identify children’s...

Rebecca Bright
Jul 20, 20212 min read
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Designing an inclusive story retell app
In 2021 we are often asked about how we can make our treasure based story more inclusive for the future. There is always more we can do...

Rebecca Bright
Jul 6, 20212 min read
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See you at #ICPLA2021
The interdisciplinary team, Dr Yvonne Wren, Prof Cristina McKean, Gerry Bates, Elaine Ashton, Dr Jennifer Chesters and Rebecca Bright...

Rebecca Bright
Jun 22, 20211 min read
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Language Explorer being demonstrated at HealTAC 2021
HealTAC 2021 will bring the academic, clinical, industrial and patient communities together to discuss the current state of the art in...

Rebecca Bright
Jun 16, 20211 min read
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Language Explorer now being evaluated in NHS clinics
This week we have started our first in-clinic sessions using Language Explorer. There are three sites participating in the evaluation of...

Rebecca Bright
Jun 9, 20211 min read
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Paper accepted for Interspeech 2021
Our paper, "Parental spoken scaffolding and narrative skills in crowd-sourced storytelling samples of young children" was accepted for...

Rebecca Bright
Jun 4, 20211 min read
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Q&A from the NAPLIC presentation
Dr Yvonne Wren had so many questions after her NAPLIC presentation that we have compile the answers here. Will this just be for English...

Rebecca Bright
May 13, 20214 min read
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PhD Student's Contribution to Language Explorer
Zhengjun is a third year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, specifically the Speech and...

Rebecca Bright
Apr 13, 20212 min read
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Using citizen science approaches to boost engagement across socio-economic groups
To gather normative data and provide data for the machine-learning driving the language analysis functions a novel citizen science...

Rebecca Bright
Apr 8, 20211 min read
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Child Health Technology Conference 2021
The CHT conference ran from 2nd to 5th March 2021, and was the first of its kind! The aim is to bring together a range of attendees from...

Rebecca Bright
Mar 12, 20211 min read
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Language Explorer: Our Journey
Language Explorer set sail in November 2019 as a way to help Speech and Language Therapists to elicit, transcribe and analyse language...

Rebecca Bright
Mar 9, 20211 min read
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