A multispeaker dataset of raw and reconstructed speech production real-time MRI video and 3D volumetric images

Y Lim, A Toutios, Y Bliesener, Y Tian, SG Lingala… - Scientific data, 2021 - nature.com
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (RT-MRI) of human speech production is enabling
significant advances in speech science, linguistics, bio-inspired speech technology …

An improved air tissue boundary segmentation technique for real time magnetic resonance imaging video using segnet

CA Valliappan, A Kumar, R Mannem… - ICASSP 2019-2019 …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an improved methodology for the segmentation of the Air-Tissue
boundaries (ATBs) in the upper airway of the human vocal tract using Real-Time Magnetic …

[PDF][PDF] Speech Organ Contour Extraction Using Real-Time MRI and Machine Learning Method.

H Takemoto, T Goto, Y Hagihara, S Hamanaka… - Interspeech, 2019 - academia.edu
Real-time MRI can be used to obtain videos that describe articulatory movements during
running speech. For detailed analysis based on a large number of video frames, it is …

[PDF][PDF] Air-Tissue Boundary Segmentation in Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging Video Using Semantic Segmentation with Fully Convolutional Networks.

CA Valliappan, R Mannem, PK Ghosh - InterSpeech, 2018 - researchgate.net
In this paper, we propose a new technique for the segmentation of the Air-Tissue
Boundaries (ATBs) in the vocal tract from the real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rtMRI) …

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 …

[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 …

Characterization of inter-speaker articulatory variability: A two-level multi-speaker modelling approach based on MRI data

A Serrurier, P Badin, L Lamalle… - The Journal of the …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Speech communication relies on articulatory and acoustic codes shared between speakers
and listeners despite inter-individual differences in morphology and idiosyncratic articulatory …

[PDF][PDF] Characterizing Vocal Tract Dynamics Across Speakers Using Real-Time MRI.

T Sorensen, A Toutios, L Goldstein, SS Narayanan - Interspeech, 2016 - sail.usc.edu
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rtMRI) provides information about the dynamic
shaping of the vocal tract during speech production and valuable data for creating and …

[HTML][HTML] ACT: An Automatic Centroid Tracking tool for analyzing vocal tract actions in real-time magnetic resonance imaging speech production data

M Oh, Y Lee - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) speech production data have expanded the
understanding of vocal tract actions. This letter presents an Automatic Centroid Tracking …

Advances in vocal tract imaging and analysis

A Toutios, D Byrd, L Goldstein… - … Routledge handbook of …, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
A long-standing challenge in speech research is obtaining accurate information about the
movement and shaping of the vocal tract. Dynamic vocal tract imaging data, recorded in real …