Vocal Tract
Singing synthesis and the Vocal Tract Organ
... human vocal tracts, it has been possible to create synthetic vocal sounds that combine both mechanical (3-D printed tracts) and electronic (synthesized larynx sound source) to enable the effects of various ...
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Functional and quantitative MRI mapping of somatomotor representations of human supralaryngeal vocal tract
... elementary vocal tract representations within M-I and S-I would differ as a function of handedness—indeed, the results for this subject supported this ...
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Real-time dynamic articulations in the 2-D waveguide mesh vocal tract model
... of tract shape, a 2-D vocal tract mesh model using increased dimensional impedance representation has been used to simulate realistic sounding ...the tract was implemented with a reduction in ...
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Speech Evaluation with Special Focus on Children Suffering from Problems of Vocal Tract
... the vocal folds, they may be more or less stretched so as to achieve higher or lower pitch ...the vocal fold’s tissue can cause an irregular, non periodic vibration which will change the shape of the ...
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A Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Vocal-Tract-Related Filter Characteristics for Single Channel Speech Separation
... We also compare our model with a technique known as MAXVQ [23] which is an SCSS technique based on the un- derdetermined BSS principle. The technique is spiritually similar to the ideal binary mask except that the actual ...
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Vocal tract length and acoustics of vocalization in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)
... Dog vocalisations were recorded using a Sony WMD3 Walkman Professional cassette recorder and Sennheiser microphone (ME80 head with K3U power module) on BASF ChromeSuper II tapes whilst the animals were in their stalls in ...
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Vocal tract function in birdsong production: experimental manipulation of beak movements
... The goal of this experiment was to reduce the precision with which birds could perform beak movements by temporarily affixing small weights to their lower beak. The songs of three adult male canaries (Serinus canaria) ...
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Validation of Optimum Algorithm Parameters Required to Estimate Vocal Tract Shape for Children Using LPC Analysis
... include vocal tract shape and tongue ...of vocal tract shape (VTS) for the improvement in speech production in adult speakers have been reported to be useful ...own vocal tract ...
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Vowel Enhancement in Early Stage Spanish Esophageal Speech Using Natural Glottal Flow Pulse and Vocal Tract Frequency Warping
... The vocal tract spectrum of ES has the following characteris- tics, i) higher frequencies are emphasized more compared to lower frequencies, ii) spectral resonances (formants) are moved to higher ...
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Waveguide physical modeling of vocal tract acoustics: flexible formant bandwidth control from increased model dimensionality
... a vocal tract ...the tract is largely governed by coef- ficients and ...the tract, and a high reflection at the glottis, which is closed for a majority of its cyclic ...
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Modeling Voiced Stop Consonants Using the 3D Dynamic Digital Waveguide Mesh Vocal Tract Model
... the vocal tract. For example [13, 14, 15] describe a 1D vocal tract model based on vocal tract area functions derived from MRI ...the vocal tract articulators, ...
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Multi-speaker frequency warping vocal tract length normalization for speaker independent speech recognition
... in vocal tract length. Compensation on vocal tract length variation can be made using Vocal Tract Length Normalization (VTLN) method which is known to be able to normalize speech ...
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Vocal Tract Area Function Estimation Using Particle Swarm
... corresponding vocal tract shape and articulatory parameters are ...produce vocal tract shapes, and then synthetic sounds were generated based on the vocal tract ...
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Classification of speech under stress based on modeling of the vocal folds and vocal tract
... the vocal folds and the vocal tract was used to simulate speech produc- ...the vocal folds, vocal tract length, and cross-sectional area of the vocal tract were ...
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Vocal tract filtering and sound radiation in a songbird
... perhaps vocal tract resonances as a whole, function to emphasize sound frequencies near 2 and ...Thus, vocal tract resonances might function to increase the distance over which modulated ...
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Profile of Patients with Stroke and Disorders of the Vocal Tract
... the vocal tract from these patients evolved according to the kind of stroke, sex and age also allowing a contraposition with other future statistics periods available in ...
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Integrating Complementary Features from Vocal Source and Vocal Tract for Speaker Identification
... The vocal source related features, ...the vocal folds’ vibration style in speech production and are closely related to the speaker-specific laryngeal ...the vocal source excitation than on that of ...
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Vocal tract articulation revisited: the case of the monk parakeet
... to vocal learning and development. However, the vocal production mechanisms have long been considered to be ...The vocal organ of songbirds is more complex than the human larynx, leading to the ...
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Vocal tract constancy in birds and humans
... reduced vocal performance (Podos 2001, Huber & Podos ...the vocal tract served to supress overtones contributing to the pure tone of most avian species (Huber & Podos 2006, Riede et ...that ...
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The Comparative Anatomy and Evolution of the Human Vocal Tract
... supralaryngeal tract, that is the portion o f the vocal tract posterior to the oral cavity, evolved in humans to compensate for the reduction in oral cavity size due to a reduction in facial ...
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