An online model for vowel imitation learning

H Rasilo, O Räsänen - Speech Communication, 2017 - Elsevier
When infants learn to pronounce speech sounds of their native language, they face the so-
called correspondence problem–how to know which articulatory gestures lead to acoustic …

Feedback and imitation by a caregiver guides a virtual infant to learn native phonemes and the skill of speech inversion

H Rasilo, O Räsänen, UK Laine - Speech Communication, 2013 - Elsevier
Despite large-scale research, development of robust machines for imitation and inversion of
human speech into articulatory movements has remained an unsolved problem. We …

[PDF][PDF] A computational model for unsupervised childlike speech acquisition

H Brandl - 2009 - core.ac.uk
Speech understanding requires the ability to parse spoken utterances into words. But this
ability is not innate and needs to be developed by infants within the first years of their life. So …

[PDF][PDF] Virtual infant's online acquisition of vowel categories and their mapping between dissimilar bodies

H Rasilo, O Räsänen, B Boer - Speech Production in Automatic …, 2013 - isca-archive.org
In order to understand how humans learn speech imitation without access to detailed
articulatory data of other talkers, simulated speech acquisition experiments between two …

Computational models of associative learning in the acquisition of speech imitation, acoustic word models, and word-meaning mappings

H Rasilo - 2017 - aaltodoc.aalto.fi
Human infants manage to learn their native language from noisy and ambiguous language
input, but the exact mechanisms underlying language learning are not known. Recent …