Kristin Teplansky is a Ph.D. Candidate at The University of Texas at Austin, advised by Dr. Jun Wang. Her research focus is on kinematic measures of speech-motor control in individuals with dysarthria secondary to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).  Kristin also analyzes tongue and lip motion patterns in voiced, silent, and alaryngeal speech.


Recent and Upcoming Presentations

Motor Speech Conference 2022, Charleston, South Carolina

World Dysphagia Summit 2021, Aichi, Japan

Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China

Motor Speech Conference 2020, Santa Barbara, California

ASHA 2019, Orlando, Florida - Meritorious Poster Submission

ICPhS 2019, Melbourne, Australia

PACE 2019, Dallas, Texas

FLASH Talk 2018, Dallas, Texas

ASHA 2018, Boston, Massachusetts

Lightening FLASH Talk 2018, Dallas, Texas

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Teplansky, K. J., Wisler, A., Green, J. R., Yunusova, Y., Campbell, T. F., Heitzman, D., Austin, S. G., & Wang, J. (2022). Tongue and lip acceleration as a measure of speech decline in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Submitted to Folia Phoniatrica et Logopedia.

2. Thomas, A., Teplansky, K. J., Wisler, A., Heitzman, D., Austin, S., & Wang, J. (under revision). Voice onset time in early- and late-stage amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Submitted to Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

3. Cao, Beiming., Myungjong, K., Teplansky, K., Sigmond, C. Wang, J. (2022). High-Accuracy Personalized ASR for low-intelligibility dysarthric speech: a case report. Submitted to Augmentative and Alternative Communication (under review).

4. Teplansky, K. J., & Jones, C. A. (2022). Pharyngeal pressure variability during volitional swallowing maneuvers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(1), 136–145.

5. Wisler, A., Teplansky, K., Heitzman, D., & Wang, J. (2021). The effects of symptom onset location on automatic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis detection using the correlation structure of articulatory movements. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(6S), 2276-2286. 

6. Teplansky, K. J., Wisler, A., Cao, B., Liang, W., Whited, C. W., Mau, T., & Wang, J. (2020). Tongue and lip motion patterns in alaryngeal speech. Proceedings of Interspeech, Shanghai, China, pp. 4576 - 4580.

7. Wisler, A., Teplansky, K., Green, J. R., Austin, S. G., & Wang, J. (2020). Can machines learn granular measures of speech severity from ordinal training labels? Proc. 33rd International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS), pp. 550-555.  

8. Wisler, A., Teplansky, K., Green, J. R., Yunusova, Y., Campbell, T.F., Heitzman, D., & Wang, J. (2019). Speech-based estimation of bulbar progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, pp. 24-31.

9. Teplansky, K., Tsang, B., Wang, J. (2019). Tongue and lip motion patterns in voiced, whispered, and silent vowel production. International Congress of Phonetic Science, no. 832, pp. 1-5.

10. Kwanghoon, A., Myungjong, K., Teplansky, K., Green, J., Campbell, T., Yunusova, Y., Heitzman, D., Wang, J. (2018). Automatic early detection of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from intelligible speech using convolutional neural networks. Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 1913-1917.

11. Dash, D., Myungjong, K., Teplansky, K., Wang, J. (2018). Automatic speech recognition with articulatory information and a unified dictionary for Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, and Oriya. Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 1046-1050.

Conference Abstracts and Presentations

1. Jones, C., & Teplansky, K. (2022). Biofeedback approaches for dysphagia rehabilitation. Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Fort Worth, TX, Feb. 24-26.

2. Teplansky, K. J., Wisler, A., Green, J. R., Heitzman, D., Austin, S. G., & Wang, J. (2022). Measuring articulatory compensation in ALS using a data-driven consonant distinctiveness space approach. Signal Analytics Workshop, Charleston, SC, Feb. 16.

3. Cheng, C., Teplansky, K., Young, N., Kurteff, G., & Wang, J. (2022). Fricative production in laryngeal, electrolaryngeal, and tracheoesophageal speech. Conference on Motor Speech, Charleston, SC, Feb. 17-20.

4. Teplansky, K., & Jones, C. (2021). Pharyngeal variability during volitional compensation techniques, Word Dysphagia Summit, Aichi, Japan. Aug 20-22.

5. Teplansky, K., & Jones, C. (2021). Pharyngeal variability during effortful, Mendelsohn, and masako swallowing techniques, UT Care Symposium, Austin, TX.

6. Thomas, A., Teplansky, K. J., Wisler, A., & Wang, J. (2021). Voice onset time in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Austin, TX, April 12-15.

7. Teplansky, K. J., Wisler, A., Green, J. R., Heitzman, D., Austin, S. G., & Wang, J. (2020). Articulatory compensation in early ALS: A variability analysis, ASHA Convention, Washington, D.C, Nov 18-20.

8. Teplansky, K., Dutta, S., Cao, B., & Wang, J. (2020). Tongue and lip motion patterns of alaryngeal and silent speech, Conference on Motor Speech, Santa Barbara, California, Feb 20-23.

9. Wisler, A., Teplansky, K., Green, J., Yunusova, Y., Campbell, T. F., Heitzman, D., & Wang, J. (2020). ALS detection based on onset using correlation structural features from kinematic measurements, Conference on Motor Speech, Santa Barbara, California, Feb 20-23.

10.  Wisler, A., Teplansky, K., Green, J., Yunusova, Y., Campbell, T. F., Heitzman, D., & Wang, J. (2020). Analyzing residuals of machine learning based ALS-FRS speech score predictions, Conference on Motor Speech, Santa Barbara, California, Feb 20-23.

11. Teplansky, K. J., Wisler, A., Shrode, A., Yunusova, Y., Green, J. R., Campbell, T. F., Heitzman, D., & Wang, J. (2019). Articulatory compensation in early amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ASHA Convention. Orlando, FL, Nov 21-23. Meritorious Poster Submission

12. Teplansky, K. J., Wisler, A., Shrode, A., Yunusova, Y., Green, J. R., Campbell, T. F., Heitzman, D., & Wang, J. (2019). Articulatory vowel distinctiveness space in early and late-stage ALS, UT Dallas PACE Poster Symposium, Dallas, TX, Feb 22.

13. Teplansky, K., Tsang, B., Mau, T., & Wang, J. (2018). Tongue and lip motion in voiced, whispered, and silent isolated vowels. ASHA Convention. Boston, MA, Nov 15-17.

14. Dash D., Teplansky, K., & Wang, J. (2018). Classification of Indo-Aryan languages with articulatory information using a BLSTAM recurrent neural network, An Interspeech Satellite Workshop, Google, Hyderabad, India, Sept 7.

15. Teplansky, K., Wang, J., Campbell, T. F., Yunusova, Y., & Green, J. (2018). Monitoring speech decline due to ALS using 3D acceleration of tongue and lip movements, Conference on Motor Speech, Savannah, GA.

16. Teplansky, K., Raja, S., Yunusova, Y., Green, J. R., Campbell, T., Heitzman, D, & Wang, J. (2017). Changes of 3D acceleration of tongue and lip movements in individuals with ALS. UT Dallas PACE Poster Symposium, Dallas, TX, May 31.

17. Purdum, K., Teplansky, K., Mau, T., & Wang, J. (2017). Duration and tongue motion distance analysis of vocal, whispered, and silent speech, UT Dallas PACE Poster Symposium, Dallas, TX, May 31. 

18. Raja, S., Teplansky, K., Yunusova, Y., Green, J. R., Campbell, T., Heitzman, D, & Wang, J. (2017). Longitudinal analysis of tongue and lip motion range and distance in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, UT Dallas PACE Poster Symposium, Dallas, TX, May 31.