Beatboxing
Beatboxing is a percussive style of vocal music that began with the birth of hip hop. Comparing beatboxing to speech helps us understand why speech uses relatively few of the possible sounds the mouth can make.
Singing
Singers need fine-tuned precision to find the right note or sound quality. Measuring how singers adapt speech sounds to music reveals more about the flexibility of the fundamental action units of speech.
Beatrhyming
Beatrhyming is the simultaneous performance of speech (singing, rapping, etc.) and beatboxing by an individual. Beatrhyming shows how speech can collaborate with other vocal behaviors.
Region of interest analysis toolbox
I developed a MatLab user interface to expedite timing analyses of real-time MRI videos like the ones collected by the USC Speech Production and Articulation kNowledge group.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
I use evidence-based practices in my teaching and write about the results in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.