Speakers of rhotic dialects of North American English show a range of different tongue
configurations for/r/. These variants produce acoustic profiles that are indistinguishable for …

Vocoders received renewed attention recently as basic components in speech synthesis
applications such as voice transformation, voice conversion and statistical parametric …

Self-recognition, being indispensable for successful social communication, has become a
major focus in current social neuroscience. The physical aspects of the self are most …

Speech sound is a wave of air that originates from complex actions of the human body,
supported by three functional units: generation of air pressure, regulation of vibration, and …

The purpose of this study was to take a first step toward constructing a developmental and
sex-specific version of a parametric vocal tract area function model representative of male …

The hypopharyngeal cavities consist of the laryngeal cavity and bilateral piriform fossa,
constituting the bottom part of the vocal tract near the larynx. Visualisation of these cavities …

Recognising individuals through their voice requires listeners to form an invariant
representation of the speaker's identity, immune to episodic changes that may occur …

In Noh, a traditional performing art of Japan, extremely expressive voice quality is used to
convey an emotional message. A periodicity of voice appears responsible for these special …

The ATR MRI database of Japanese vowel production was used to evaluate the acoustic
characteristics of the vocal tract for the five Japanese vowels through the measurements of …

The study assessed 30 nonprofessional singers to evaluate the effects of vocal tract shape
adjustment via increased resonance toward an externally applied sinusoidal frequency of …