Generation of articulatory movements by using a kinematic triphone model

2001 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
pp. 453-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeshi Okadome ◽  
Masaaki Honda
Keyword(s):  
Articulatory Movements ◽  
Triphone Model

Articulatory Behavior Pre and Post Full-Mouth Tooth Extraction and Alveoloplasty

1980 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 630-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Zimmermann ◽  
J.A. Scott Kelso ◽  
Larry Lander
Keyword(s):  
Control Subject ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Tooth Extraction ◽  
Kinematic Parameters ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Articulatory Movements ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Experimental Subjects ◽  
Normal Speech

High speed cinefluorography was used to track articulatory movements preceding and following full-mouth tooth extraction and alveoloplasty in two subjects. Films also were made of a control subject on two separate days. The purpose of the study was to determine the effects of dramatically altering the structural dimensions of the oral cavity on the kinematic parameters of speech. The results showed that the experimental subjects performed differently pre and postoperatively though the changes were in different directions for the two subjects. Differences in both means and variabilities of kinematic parameters were larger between days for the experimental (operated) subjects than for the control subject. The results for the Control subject also showed significant differences in the mean values of kinematic variables between days though these day-to-day differences could not account for the effects found pre- and postoperatively. The results of the kinematic analysis, particularly the finding that transition time was most stable over the experimental conditions for the operated subjects, are used to speculate about the coordination of normal speech.

scholarly journals Speech, gesture and the origins of language

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLEM J. M. LEVELT
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Genetic Evidence ◽  
Language Origins ◽  
Sole Purpose ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Articulatory Movements ◽  
The 19Th Century

During the second half of the 19th century, the psychology of language was invented as a discipline for the sole purpose of explaining the evolution of spoken language. These efforts culminated in Wilhelm Wundt's monumental Die Sprache of 1900, which outlined the psychological mechanisms involved in producing utterances and considered how these mechanisms could have evolved. Wundt assumes that articulatory movements were originally rather arbitrary concomitants of larger, meaningful expressive bodily gestures. The sounds such articulations happened to produce slowly acquired the meaning of the gesture as a whole, ultimately making the gesture superfluous. Over a century later, gestural theories of language origins still abound. I argue that such theories are unlikely and wasteful, given the biological, neurological and genetic evidence.

scholarly journals Cognitive Vocal Program applied to individuals with signals presbylarynx: preliminary results

CoDAS ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 503-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katia Nemr ◽  
Glaucia Verena Sampaio de Souza ◽  
Marcia Simões-Zenari ◽  
Domingos Hiroshi Tsuji ◽  
Adriana Hachiya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Vocal Production ◽  
Maximum Phonation Time ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Perceptual Evaluation ◽  
Articulatory Movements ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Screening Protocol ◽  
Program Intervention ◽  
Vocal Quality

PURPOSE: To propose and verify the feasibility of a vocal program intervention in patients with presbylarynx signs with or without vocal complaints. METHOD: Among 20 elder participants of the current research, 3 female patients with median age of 67 years were chosen for the pilot study. Laryngological examination, vocal recording with CAPE-V (Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice) protocol, and Screening Protocol of Risk of Dysphonia (SPRD) were conducted before and after the program intervention. They joined the Cognitive Vocal Program for presbyphonia based on the genetic epistemology by Jean Piaget associated with vocal techniques based on scientific literature. This program is structured with six sessions and each one of them is focused in different aspects of vocal production. RESULTS: After the program intervention, some aspects such as loudness, coordination between breathing and speaking, accuracy in articulatory movements, jitter, and harmonics-to-noise ratio improved with parameters within the expected range for the age group. Three female participants were observed for better vocal quality, higher fundamental frequency, and better maximum phonation time. In two cases, tension related to loudness elevation and better scores on SPRD was observed. Using by high-speed laryngeal image, we also observed reduction of presbylarynx signs, and remarkable improvement in glottis closure competence and mucosal wave movement of the patients with and without vocal complaints. CONCLUSION: The preliminary results suggest encouraging prospects for the proposal with improvement in the aspects analyzed. This program was well designed and did not require any further adjustments.

Développement de la parole et émergence de la structure prosodique chez l’enfant : une étude de l’accent d’emphase en français

2009 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-136
Author(s):  
Lucie Ménard ◽  
Mélanie Thibeault
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Frequency ◽  
Acoustic Signal ◽  
Sound Intensity ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Upper Lip ◽  
Lower Lip ◽  
Contrastive Focus ◽  
Articulatory Movements ◽  
Neutral Conditions

AbstractThis article presents the results of a study on articulatory and acoustical correlates of contrastive focus in French in five children aged 4 and 5 and five adults. The speakers repeated the sequence [baba] in two prosodic contexts: neutral conditions and contrastive focus. The acoustic signal and the trajectories of three sensors placed on the subjects’ upper lip, lower lip, and chin were recorded using an Optotrak system. Articulatory movements were analyzed for the two syllables in the sequence, in each of the two prosodic conditions. Formant measurements, sound intensity, fundamental frequency, and acoustic duration of the segments were also extracted from the acoustic signal. The results show that the effects of contrastive focus are smaller in the children than the adult speakers. The results are interpreted in light of recent theories on the emergence of spoken language in children.

An Evaluation Framework for Virtual Articulatory Movements Based on Medical Video

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 585-592
Author(s):  
Rui LI ◽  
Jun YU ◽  
Xian LI ◽  
Peng FANG ◽  
Zengfu WANG
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Articulatory Movements

Effects of Different coefficients on MFCC and PLP for Bangla Speech Corpus using Tied-state Triphone Model

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oli Lowna Baroi ◽  
Md. Shaikh Abrar Kabir ◽  
Azhar Niaz ◽  
Al Mahmud Rakib ◽  
Md. Jahidul Islam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Speech Corpus ◽  
Triphone Model
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