Extraction and utilization of excitation information of speech: A review

SR Kadiri, P Alku, B Yegnanarayana - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speech production can be regarded as a process where a time-varying vocal tract system
(filter) is excited by a time-varying excitation. In addition to its linguistic message, the speech …

LaDIVA: A neurocomputational model providing laryngeal motor control for speech acquisition and production

HR Weerathunge, GA Alzamendi, GJ Cler… - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Many voice disorders are the result of intricate neural and/or biomechanical impairments
that are poorly understood. The limited knowledge of their etiological and …

Estimation of subglottal pressure, vocal fold collision pressure, and intrinsic laryngeal muscle activation from neck-surface vibration using a neural network framework …

EJ Ibarra, JA Parra, GA Alzamendi, JP Cortés… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The ambulatory assessment of vocal function can be significantly enhanced by having
access to physiologically based features that describe underlying pathophysiological …

An Euler–Bernoulli-type beam model of the vocal folds for describing curved and incomplete glottal closure patterns

MA Serry, GA Alzamendi, M Zañartu… - Journal of the mechanical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Incomplete glottal closure is a laryngeal configuration wherein the glottis is not fully
obstructed prior to phonation. It has been linked to inefficient voice production and voice …

Predicting 3D soft tissue dynamics from 2D imaging using physics informed neural networks

M Movahhedi, XY Liu, B Geng, C Elemans… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Tissue dynamics play critical roles in many physiological functions and provide important
metrics for clinical diagnosis. Capturing real-time high-resolution 3D images of tissue …

Direct measurement and modeling of intraglottal, subglottal, and vocal fold collision pressures during phonation in an individual with a hemilaryngectomy

DD Mehta, JB Kobler, SM Zeitels, M Zañartu, EJ Ibarra… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Featured Application The overall goal of this work is to better understand how vocal fold
collision contributes to the development and clinical management of vocal pathologies, such …

Triangular body-cover model of the vocal folds with coordinated activation of the five intrinsic laryngeal muscles

GA Alzamendi, SD Peterson, BD Erath… - The Journal of the …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Poor laryngeal muscle coordination that results in abnormal glottal posturing is believed to
be a primary etiologic factor in common voice disorders such as non-phonotraumatic vocal …

Exploring the mechanics of fundamental frequency variation during phonation onset

MA Serry, CE Stepp, SD Peterson - Biomechanics and modeling in …, 2023 - Springer
Fundamental frequency patterns during phonation onset have received renewed interest
due to their promising application in objective classification of normal and pathological …

Non-linear image distortions in flexible fiberoptic endoscopes and their effects on calibrated horizontal measurements using high-speed videoendoscopy

H Ghasemzadeh, DD Deliyski - Journal of Voice, 2022 - Elsevier
Laryngeal images obtained via high-speed videoendoscopy are an invaluable source of
information for the advancement of voice science because they can capture the true cycle-to …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of flow model selection on finite element model parameter estimation using Bayesian inference

PJ Hadwin, BD Erath, SD Peterson - JASA Express Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Recently, Bayesian estimation coupled with finite element modeling has been demonstrated
as a viable tool for estimating vocal fold material properties from kinematic information …