CV for Anne-Marie Öster

Curriculum Vitae for Anne-Marie Öster

Education

1992: PhL. Licentiate thesis: "The Speech of Deaf Children - Phonological Assessment as a Basis for Speech Training".
1985: Graduate student, Phonetics and Linguistics, Stockholm University.
1983: Clinical and Technical Audiology, Karolinska Institute, Department of Audiology.
1970: B.A. Stockholm University. Subjects: Phonetics, German language and philology, English language and philology, Philology, Pedagogy.

Employments

Hearing Technology Group, Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH in Stockholm since 1970. Main research activities in the development of phonetic and phonological analyses of the speech of deaf and hard-of-hearing persons, studies of phonological systems of deaf children, effects of cochlear implantation on speech production and computer-based speech training for second language learners.

Lecturer in speech production and acoustics at University College of Health Sciences, Stockholm, since 1983 and at the School for Education since 1990.
Lecturer in phonetics and linguistics, Institute of Linguistics, University of Stockholm since 1989.
Lecturer for speech therapists, Institute of Linguistics, University of Stockholm, since 1993.
Consultant to IBM, National Support Center for Persons with Disabilities, since 1987 in the area of computer-based speech training (SpeechViewer I, II, and III).
Project leader of the “Speech Therapy Programme” at the Manilla School for Deaf Children in Stockholm, since 1984.
Project leader of the introduction of “SpeechViewer II” in the pre-school-training for hard-of-hearing children at Hearing and Speech Clinic, Danderyds Hospital in Stockholm.
Project leader of the introduction of “SpeechViewer II and III” in the education and speech training of Immigrants in Sweden.
Lecturer at the School for Education; designing a computer-based speech therapy programme for cochlea implanted prelingually deaf children in Sweden.
Principal investigator in the Project “The Intelligibility of Synthetic Speech with regard to Hearing Impairment”, sponsored by the Swedish Handicap Institute.
Reviewer of the “Scandinavian Audiology”.
Member of the Organizing committee of Fonetik-96, Nässlingen, Sweden, May 29-31, 1996.
Member of the Organizing committee of the ESCA workshop: Speech Technology in Language Learning (STiLL), Stockholm, May 25-27, 1998.
Swedish partner in the European Commission Industrial R&D Project INCO-Copernicus Project 977126 – SPECO “A multimedia multilingual teaching and training system for speech handicapped children” from 31st September 1998 – 30th of August 2001.
Swedish partner in the European Commission Project, Fifth Framework Programme, Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, contract QLG5-CT-2001-01971 – “Ortho-Logo-Pedia” (OLP), an integrated computer-based system available over the Internet.
Leader of the national project “Early diagnosis of speech processing capabilities of children with difficulties to perceive and produce spoken language”, supported by KK-stiftelsen.
Invited teacher at the 11th ELSNET Summer School on Language and Speech Technology in Language Learning, Lille (France), July 2003.

Book Chapters

Öster, A-M (1995) “Principles for a complete description of the phonological system of deaf children as a basis for speech training”, Profound Deafness and Speech Communication, London: Whurr Publ. Ltd. Edited by Plant, G & Spens, K-E., Chapter 20, 441-460.

Selected Scientific Articles

Öster A-M (1999) "Strategies and results from spoken L2 teaching with audio-visual feedback", TMH-QPSR 1-2/1999, 1-8.
Vicsi K., Roach P., Öster A-M., Kacic Z., Barczikay & Tantoa A., Csatári F. & Bakcsi Zs., Sfakianaki A. (2000) “A multilingual teaching and training system for children with speech disorders”, International Journal of Speech technology 3, 289-300, 2000.
Öster A-M (2002) “The relationship between residual hearing and speech intelligibility - Is there a measure that could predict a prelingually profoundly deaf child's possibility to develop intelligible speech?”, TMH-QPSR, Vol. 43/2002, 51-56.
Öster A-M, House, D., Protopapas, A., Hatzis, A. (2002) “ Presentation of a new EU project for speech therapy: OLP (Ortho-Logo-Paedia)”, TMH-QPSR, Vol. 44, -Fonetik 2002, 45-48.

Selected Reviewed Conferences

Öster A-M (1995) "Teaching speech skills to deaf children by computer-based speech training", Proceedings of the 18th Intl Congress on Education of the Deaf, July 1995, Tel-Aviv.
Öster A-M (1996) "Clinical applications of computer-based speech training for children with hearing-impairment", Proceedings of ICSLP-96, 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Philadelphia, USA, Oct 1996; 157-160.
Langlais P., Öster A-M., Granström B (1998) "Automatic detection of mispronunciation in non-native Swedish speech", ESCA - STiLL98, Marholmen, Sweden, May 24-27, pp. 41-44.
Öster A-M (1998) "Spoken L2-teaching with contrastive visual and auditory feedback", Proceedings of ICSLP98, Sydney, November 1998.
Öster A-M (1999) "A multimedia multilingual teaching and training system for speech and hearing impaired children - SPECO", Proceedings of Fonetik 99, Gothenburg, pp. 149-152.
Öster A-M, House, D., Hatzis, A., Green, P. (2003) “Testing a new method for training fricatives using visual maps in the Ortho-Logo-Pedia project (OLP)”, Phonum 9- Fonetik 2003.
Öster A-M, Hatzis, A., House, D., Green, P. (2003) “Testing visual maps for training Swedish fricative articulation”, submitted to Eurospeech 2003, Genova, Switzerland.

Commercial software

”Trollerilådan” – a playful tool for speech development of children aged 4-10. Available from Frölunda Data AB, Box 4078, Västra Frölunda.