Articulatory differences between oral and nasal vowels based on simulation of a speaker-adaptive articulatory model

Panying Rong, Ryan Shosted, David Kuehn

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Abstract

In this study, a speaker-adaptive articulatory model was constructed by fitting point-wise articulatory positions measured by electromagnetic articulography (EMA) to the vocal tract framework in [5] to customize a standard vocal tract model with speaker-dependent articulatory features. With the speakeradaptive articulatory model, the area functions of oral and nasal vowel pairs (/a/, /i/, /u/) were simulated. The differences of area functions between oral and nasal vowels were decomposed into orthogonal modes [10] to account for the primary oropharyngeal articulatory changes related to nasalization. The relationship between the principal articulatory modes and the lowest two formant frequencies (F1, F2) was examined to uncover the effect of oropharyngeal articulation on the acoustics of nasal vowels.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationINTERSPEECH-2012
Pages2697-2700
Number of pages4
StatePublished - 2012
Event13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012 - Portland, OR, United States
Duration: Sep 9 2012Sep 13 2012

Publication series

Name13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012
Volume3

Other

Other13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPortland, OR
Period9/9/129/13/12

Keywords

  • Articulatory modeling
  • Electromagnetic articulography
  • Nasalization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Communication

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