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Prof. Anna Barney BSc, MSc, PhD

Associate Dean Education, Professor of Biomedical Acoustic Engineering

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Prof. Anna Barney is Associate Dean Education within Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton.

Anna Barney was awarded a BSc in Physics and MSc in Electronics and, in 1995, a PhD in Speech Acoustics all at the University of Southampton. She was appointed as a lecturer in 1998, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2004 and to Professor of Biomedical Acoustic Engineering in 2014.

Anna Barney's research interests are primarily in the acoustics of speech production. She also has developing interests in assessment of muscle function and in lung sounds.

fluid mechanical and acoustic modelling of the voice source in speech
vocal tract acoustics
source-tract interaction in speech and singing
mechanomyography for assessing muscle activation
measurement and analysis of lung sounds.

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Research group

Signal Processing and Control Group

Articles

Motamedi-Fakhr, S., Iles, R., Barney, A., de Boer, W., Conlon, J., Khalid, A., & Wilson, R. C. (2017). Evaluation of the agreement of tidal breathing parameters measured simultaneously using pneumotachography and structured light plethysmography. Physiological Reports, 5(3), [e13124]. DOI: 10.14814/phy2.13124
Barney, A., Nikolic, D., Garrard, P., & Nemes, V. (2017). Motif discovery in speech: application to monitoring Alzheimer’s disease. Current Alzheimer Research, 14(9), 951-959. DOI: 10.2174/1567205014666170309121025
Tehrany, R. M., Bruton, A., & Barney, A. (2016). The feasibility of recording speech breathing patterns before and after pulmonary rehabilitation in an out-patient environment. Journal of Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine, 1-20.
Bennett, S., Bruton, A., Barney, A., Havelock, T., & Bennett, M. (2014). The relationship between crackle characteristics and airway morphology in COPD. Respiratory Care, 1-10. DOI: 10.4187/respcare.03543
Pinho, C., Jesus, L. M. T., & Barney, A. (2013). Aerodynamic measures of speech in unilateral vocal fold paralysis (UVFP) patients. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 38(1), 19-34. DOI: 10.3109/14015439.2012.696138
Marques, A., Bruton, A., Barney, A., & Hall, A. (2012). Are crackles an appropriate outcome measure for airway clearance therapy? Respiratory Care, 57(9), 1468-1475. DOI: 10.4187/respcare.01625
Barney, A., Martelli, S., Serrurier, A., & Steele, J. (2012). Articulatory capacity of Neanderthals, a very recent and human-like fossil hominin. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 367(1585), 88-102. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0259
Serrurier, A., Badin, P., Barney, A., Boe, L-J., & Savarieux, C. (2012). The tongue in speech and feeding: comparative articulatory modelling. Journal of Phonetics, 40(6), 745-763. DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2012.08.001
Pinho, C. M. R., Jesus, L. M. T., & Barney, A. (2012). Weak voicing in fricative production. Journal of Phonetics, 40(5), 625-638. DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2012.06.002
Kniesburges, S., Thomson, S. L., Barney, A., Triep, M., Horacek, J., Brucker, C., & Becker, S. (2011). In vitro experimental investigation of voice production. Current Bioinformatics.
Marques, A., Bruton, A., & Barney, A. (2009). The reliability of lung crackle characteristics in cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis patients in a clinical setting. Physiological Measurement, 30(9), 903-912. DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/30/9/003
Barney, A., & Jackson, P. J. B. (2008). Analysis of frication noise modulation from a physical model. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5), p.3578. DOI: 10.1121/1.2934677
Barney, A., Jesus, L., & Santos, R. (2008). Investigation of the mechanisms of voicing offset (Invited Paper for Special Session on Speech Communication: Acoustics of Speech Production: Aeroacoustics and Phonation). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5), 3576. DOI: 10.1121/1.2934665
Barney, A., De Stefano, A., & Henrich, N. (2007). The effect of glottal opening on the acoustic response of the vocal tract. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 93(6), 1046-1056.
Marques, A., Bruton, A., & Barney, A. (2006). Clinically useful outcome measures for physiotherapy airway clearance techniques: a review. Physical Therapy Reviews, 11(4), 299-307. DOI: 10.1179/108331906X163441
Manfredi, C., & Barney, A. (2002). Guest Editorial. Models and analysis of vocal emissions. Medical Engineering and Physics, 24(7-8), 449-452. DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(02)00053-X
Barney, A., & Shadle, C. H. (2001). Aerodynamic and aeroacoustic aspects of vowel production. Comments on Theoretical Biology, 6(1), 29-54.

Conferences

Nemes, V., Nikolic, D., Barney, A., & Garrard, P. (2012). A feasibility study of speech recording using a contact microphone in patients with possible or probable Alzheimer’s Disease, to detect and quantify repetitions in a natural setting. Poster session presented at Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, .
Lo, A., Bruton, A., & Barney, A. (2012). Can breathing pattern parameters be reliably differentiated between healthy and severe asthma patients?. Poster session presented at European Respiratory Society Annual Congress, .
Barney, A. (2012). Dynamic mechanical modelling of speech. Congres Acoustics 2012, France.
Tehrany, R., Bruton, A., & Barney, A. (2012). Speech breathing pattern analysis in adults during stable periods of asthma. Paper presented at Physiotherapy UK Congress, United Kingdom.
Tehrany, R., Bruton, A., & Barney, A. (2012). Speech breathing pattern analysis in adults with a self reported history of asthma. Poster session presented at European Respiratory Society Annual Congress., Austria.
Mackawan, S., Bruton, A., Havelock, T., Bennett, M. J., & Barney, A. (2012). The prediction of airway wall thickening by computer aided lung sound analysis. Poster session presented at European Respiratory Society Annual Congress, .
Barney, A. (2011). Modelling of palatal snoring. 18th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV), Brazil.
Martelli, S., Serrurier, A., Barney, A., & Steele, J. (2010). 3-D morphometric and acoustic analysis of chimpanzee and human vocal tracts, and their use in the reconstruction of Neanderthal vocal tracts and their acoustic potential. In A. D. M. Smith, M. Schouwstra, B. de Boer, & K. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (pp. 449-450). London, GB: World Scientific.
Pinho, C. M. R., Jesus, L. M. T., & Barney, A. (2010). Analysis of open quotient in voiced fricative production using EGG. Paper presented at 9th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Laryngology, Voice and Speech Research, Germany.
Pedersen, M., & Barney, A. (2010). Clinical criteria for benign laryngeal mucosal evalution and treatment, including evidence based assessment of voice. Poster session presented at XVIII PVSF/UCLA Pacific Voice Conference, .
Pedersen, M., & Barney, A. (2010). Clinical criteria for evidence-based treatment of laryngitis and benign laryngeal neoplasms. Paper presented at 9th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Laryngology, Voice and Speech Research, Germany.
Lo, W. L., Bruton, A., Barney, A., & Lewis, A. (2010). Does garment-embedded respiratory inductive plethysmography (RIP) show equivalent changes in respiratory parameters to a pneumotachograph (PNT)?. Poster session presented at European Respiratory Society Annual Congress, Spain.
Barney, A. (2010). Simple models; complex flows. Paper presented at 9th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Laryngology, Voice and Speech Research, Germany.
Lo, W. L., Bruton, A., & Barney, A. (2010). The validity of an instrumented garment to measure relative changes in respiratory parameters during quiet breathing and exercise. Poster session presented at Association for Respiratory Technology and Physiology Conference, United Kingdom.
Barney, A., & Jackson, P. J. B. (2009). A model of jet modulation in voiced fricatives. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics NAG/DAGA 2009, Rotterdam, Holland, 23-26 March 2009 (pp. 1733-1736). Mook, The Netherlands: NAG-DAGA.
Pinho, C. M. R., Jesus, L. M. T., & Barney, A. (2009). Aerodynamics of fricative production in european Portugese. 472-5. Paper presented at 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech 2009, .
Serrurier, A., & Barney, A. (2009). Articulatory modelling of the vocal tract in feeding from x-ray images. 133-136. Paper presented at 6th International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications, .
Marques, A., Bruton, A., & Barney, A. (2009). Computer aided lung sound analysis: a preliminary study to assess its potential as a new outcome measure for respiratory therapy. Paper presented at 3rd International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - HEALTHINF 2009, .
Marques, A., Bruton, A., & Barney, A. (2009). Computer aided lung sound analysis: A preliminary study to assess it's potential as a new outcome measure for respiratory therapy. 251-256. Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF), .
Jesus, L. M. T., Barney, A., Santos, R., Caetano, J., Jorge, J., & Sa Couto, P. (2009). Universidade de Aveiro's voice evaluation protocol. Paper presented at Interspeech 2009, .
Jesus, L. M. T., Barney, A., Sa Couto, P., Vilarinho, H., & Correia, A. (2009). Voice quality evaluation using CAPE-V and GRBAS in european Portuguese. 61-64. Paper presented at 6th International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications, .
Serrurier, A., Barney, A., Badin, P., Boë, L-J., & Savariaux, C. (2008). Comparative articulatory modelling of the tongue in speech and feeding. In R. Sock, S. Fuchs, & Y. Laprie (Eds.), ISSP 2008 Proceedings (pp. 325-328). France: Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique.
Marques, A., Bruton, A., Barney, A., & White, P. (2008). Computer aided lung sound analysis before and after physiotherapy for mucociliary clearance. Poster session presented at European Respiratory Society Annual Congress, .
Marques, A., Bruton, A., Barney, A., & White, P. (2008). Reliability of computer aided lung sound analysis detecting crackles in bronchiectasis patients: a potential outcome measure for respiratory physiotherapy. European Respiratory Society Annual Congress, .
Barney, A., & Jackson, P. J. B. (2007). Aerodynamically-based parametric description of the noise envelope in voiced fricatives. 3122.
John, P., Gates, J., Clark, D., Pennington, R., Himsworth, M., & Barney, A. (2006). Teaching holography: new problems, new courses and new students: a case study in teaching holography as a problem based learning project to engineering and physics foundation year students. 32-36. Paper presented at 7th International Symposium on Display Holography: Advances in display holography, United Kingdom.
Barney, A., De Stefano, A., & Henrich, N. (2005). The effect of glottal opening on the acoustic response of the vocal tract. Paper presented at European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2005 Conference, .
Subari, K. S., Shadle, C. H., Barney, A., & Damper, R. I. (2004). Comparison of fricative vocal tract transfer functions derived using two different segmentation techniques. Paper presented at International Conference on Signal Processing 2004, .
Barney, A., De Stefano, A., & Shadle, C. (2002). Investigation of acoustic sources using a dynamic mechanical model of the vocal folds and tract. Paper presented at Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference 2002, Past, Present and Future Acoustics and EPSRC Theme Day in Acoustics, .
Barney, A., De Stefano, A., & Shadle, C. H. (2002). Investigation of acoustic sources using a new dynamic mechanical model of the vocal folds and tract. In Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Institute of Acoustics.
Shadle, C., Barney, A., & De Stefano, A. (2002). Jet structure in a mechanical model of the vocal folds and vocal tract: static and dynamic measurements. In Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics.
Barney, A., De Stefano, A., & Shadle, C. (2002). Pressure and airflow measurements in a dynamic mechanical model of the larynx and vocal tract. Paper presented at Forum Acousticum, .

Prof. Anna Barney
Engineering and the Environment University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ

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