" The first description of voice quality production in 40 years, this book provides a new
framework for its study: The Laryngeal Articulator Model. Informed by instrumental …

A central challenge for articulatory speech synthesis is the simulation of realistic articulatory
movements, which is critical for the generation of highly natural and intelligible speech. This …

The area of vocal registers is still unclarified. In a previous investigation, dynamic real-time
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which is able to produce up to 10 frames per second …

This dissertation examines the phonetic and phonological functioning of the supraglottal part
of the larynx, the epilarynx, from an articulatory-physiological perspective. The central thesis …

Flow separation in the vocal system at the outlet of a constriction causes turbulence and a
fluid dynamic pressure loss. In articulatory synthesizers, the pressure drop associated with …

This paper reviews interactive methods for improving the phonetic competence of subjects in
the case of second language learning as well as in the case of speech therapy for subjects …

Acoustic models of the vocal tract for articulatory speech synthesis often neglect a range of
acoustic effects that are known to exist in the human vocal tract. Here we extended a basic …

Changes of vocal tract shape accompanying changes of vocal register and pitch in singing
have remained an unclear field. Dynamic real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was …

We present the adaptation of the anatomy and articulation of a 3D vocal tract model to a new
speaker using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We combined two MRI corpora of the …

This paper outlines a theoretical approach to speech sound systems based on the notion of
phonological potentials: physical 'pressures' or biases that give rise to discrete structure and …