Articulate Instruments

Articulate Instruments designs and manufactures instrumentation for measuring the way we speak. We offer software to speech pathologists, speech therapists and other speech professionals to aid in the diagnosis, assessment and remediation of speech disorders.

One potentially valuable diagnostic and speech therapy procedure for articulation disorders is electropalatography (EPG). EPG records details of the location and timing of tongue contacts with the hard palate during speech. EPG records alveolar, post-alveolar, palatal, and velar placement, and registers characteristic patterns for many consonants and vowels that occur in English, making it a useful technique for investigating a wide range of speech targets. EPG also has a facility to provide real-time visual feedback of tongue-palate contacts, which can be used to monitor articulation as part of a speech therapy programme. EPG is now relatively well-established as a clinical tool, and has been used successfully for articulation disorders such as those associated with developmental and acquired conditions such as dyspraxia, dysarthria, cleft palate and other craniofacial abnormalities, downs syndrome and hearing impairment.

Our product line includes the latest Electropalatography (EPG) therapy system designed in consultation with speech pathologists and incorporating the latest developments in EPG clinical assessment and EPG speech therapy practice. The PC-based WinEPG system and PTU are described in detail under the Products section of this site.

Latest News

29 July 2008 Articulate Assistant Version 1.17 (download) provides revised method of synchronisation to avoid synchronisation errors when omnidirectional microphones are used - see support section for more details.

12 June 2008 Articulate Assistant Advanced Version 2.08 (Multichannel software) (download) 4.1Mb important bug fixes and many new features - see support section for more details.

24 August 2007 Articulate Assistant Version 1.16(EPG software) (download) 4.1Mb important bug fix for PCs with intel Core 2 Duo / Quad processors.

01 April 2006 - New ultrasound image/audio capture hardware and analysis software specifically designed for speech now avalailable. More details soon.

27 March 2006 - WinEPG and PTU systems licensed by Health Canada for clinical use

New multichannel system available with up to 8 analogue channels and 200Hz EPG

Software application available to resynchronise data Resync.zip (download) 300K Please read Help document before use. Articulate Assistant Version 1.11 available soon with fix to prevent synchronisation errors in future.