This paper examines the degrees of correlation among vocal-tract and facial movement data
and the speech acoustics. Multilinear techniques are applied to support the claims that facial …

Given a stereo pair it is possible to recover a depth map and use that depth to render a
synthetically defocused image. Though stereo algorithms are well-studied, rarely are those …

The piriform fossa forms the bottom part of the pharynx and acts as a pair of side branches of
the vocal tract. Because of its obscure form and function, the piriform fossa has usually been …

A model of the vocal-tract area function is described that consists of four tiers. The first tier is
a vowel substrate defined by a system of spatial eigenmodes and a neutral area function …

The function of the mammalian external and middle ears (at least in terrestrial mammals)
appears qualitatively similar. The external ear collects sound power and couples the …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to acquire vocal tract shapes of ten vowels/i,
ɪ, ɛ, æ, ʌ, ɑ, ɔ, o, ʊ, u/and two liquid approximants/ɝ, l/for a 27-year-old adult female …

Artificial talkers and speech synthesis systems have long been used as a means of
understanding both speech production and speech perception. The development of an …

Speaker age is an important paralinguistic feature in speech which has to be considered in
the study of phonetic variation. Knowledge about this feature may be used to improve …

An alternative for the Liljencrants–Fant (LF) glottal-pulse model is presented. This alternative
is derived from the Rosenberg model. Therefore, it is called the Rosenberg++ model. In the …

Articulatory trajectories of an articulatory model were recovered by means of a genetic
algorithm from acoustic information using a task-dynamic model of speech articulation. Tests …