Silent speech interfaces for speech restoration: A review

JA Gonzalez-Lopez, A Gomez-Alanis… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This review summarises the status of silent speech interface (SSI) research. SSIs rely on non-
acoustic biosignals generated by the human body during speech production to enable …

Direct speech reconstruction from articulatory sensor data by machine learning

JA Gonzalez, LA Cheah, AM Gomez… - … on Audio, Speech …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a technique that generates speech acoustics from articulator
movements. Our motivation is to help people who can no longer speak following …

A silent speech system based on permanent magnet articulography and direct synthesis

JA Gonzalez, LA Cheah, JM Gilbert, J Bai, SR Ell… - Computer Speech & …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper we present a silent speech interface (SSI) system aimed at restoring speech
communication for individuals who have lost their voice due to laryngectomy or diseases …

Advances in real-time magnetic resonance imaging of the vocal tract for speech science and technology research

A Toutios, SS Narayanan - APSIPA Transactions on Signal and …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rtMRI) of the moving vocal tract during running
speech production is an important emerging tool for speech production research providing …

A modular architecture for articulatory synthesis from gestural specification

R Alexander, T Sorensen, A Toutios… - The Journal of the …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This paper proposes a modular architecture for articulatory synthesis from a gestural
specification comprising relatively simple models for the vocal tract, the glottis, aero …

Reduction of non-native accents through statistical parametric articulatory synthesis

S Aryal, R Gutierrez-Osuna - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents an articulatory synthesis method to transform utterances from a second
language (L2) learner to appear as if they had been produced by the same speaker but with …

[PDF][PDF] Articulatory synthesis based on real-time magnetic resonance imaging data.

A Toutios, T Sorensen, K Somandepalli… - Interspeech, 2016 - researchgate.net
This paper presents a methodology for articulatory synthesis of running speech in American
English driven by real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rtMRI) mid-sagittal vocal-tract …

Vocal tract area estimation by gradient descent

D Südholt, M Cámara, Z Xu, JD Reiss - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.04702, 2023 - arxiv.org
Articulatory features can provide interpretable and flexible controls for the synthesis of
human vocalizations by allowing the user to directly modify parameters like vocal strain or lip …

Optimal control theory of speech production using probabilistic articulatory-acoustic models

B Elie, J Šimko, A Turk - 20th International Conference of …, 2023 - research.ed.ac.uk
This paper introduces the concept of using probabilistic articulatory-acoustic models in
optimization-based models of speech articulatory planning. In these models, speech …

A kinematic study of critical and non-critical articulators in emotional speech production

J Kim, A Toutios, S Lee, SS Narayanan - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
This study explores one aspect of the articulatory mechanism that underlies emotional
speech production, namely, the behavior of linguistically critical and non-critical articulators …