Printable 3D vocal tract shapes from MRI data and their acoustic and aerodynamic properties

P Birkholz, S Kürbis, S Stone, P Häsner, R Blandin… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
A detailed understanding of how the acoustic patterns of speech sounds are generated by
the complex 3D shapes of the vocal tract is a major goal in speech research. The Dresden …

Influence of vocal tract geometry simplifications on the numerical simulation of vowel sounds

M Arnela, S Dabbaghchian, R Blandin… - The Journal of the …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
For many years, the vocal tract shape has been approximated by one-dimensional (1D) area
functions to study the production of voice. More recently, 3D approaches allow one to deal …

A pilot study on the influence of mouth configuration and torso on singing voice directivity

M Brandner, R Blandin, M Frank… - The Journal of the …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Directivity of speech and singing is determined primarily by the morphology of a person, ie,
head size, torso dimensions, posture, and vocal tract. Previous works have suggested from …

OPENGLOT–An open environment for the evaluation of glottal inverse filtering

P Alku, T Murtola, J Malinen, J Kuortti, B Story… - Speech …, 2019 - Elsevier
Glottal inverse filtering (GIF) refers to technology to estimate the source of voiced speech,
the glottal flow, from speech signals. When a new GIF algorithm is proposed, its accuracy …

MRI-based vocal tract representations for the three-dimensional finite element synthesis of diphthongs

M Arnela, S Dabbaghchian, O Guasch… - … /ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The synthesis of diphthongs in three-dimensions (3D) involves the simulation of acoustic
waves propagating through a complex 3D vocal tract geometry that deforms over time …

Controlling chaotic vocal fold oscillations in the numerical production of vowel sounds

O Guasch, M Freixes, M Arnela, A Van Hirtum - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
Lumped mass models have been studied in depth to unveil the complex nonlinear physics
of phonation. Even in the case of simple symmetric models, slight changes in muscle …

Influence of lips on the production of vowels based on finite element simulations and experiments

M Arnela, R Blandin, S Dabbaghchian… - The Journal of the …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Three-dimensional (3-D) numerical approaches for voice production are currently being
investigated and developed. Radiation losses produced when sound waves emanate from …

[HTML][HTML] Compressible flow simulations of voiced speech using rigid vocal tract geometries acquired by MRI

L Schickhofer, J Malinen, M Mihaescu - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Voiced speech consists mainly of the source signal that is frequency weighted by the
acoustic filtering of the upper airways and vortex-induced sound through perturbation in the …

Glottal source contribution to higher order modes in the finite element synthesis of vowels

M Freixes, M Arnela, JC Socoró, F Alías, O Guasch - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Articulatory speech synthesis has long been based on one-dimensional (1D) approaches.
They assume plane wave propagation within the vocal tract and disregard higher order …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of the aerodynamic sound of speech through static vocal tract models of various glottal shapes

L Schickhofer, M Mihaescu - Journal of biomechanics, 2020 - Elsevier
The acoustic spectrum of our voice can be divided into harmonic and inharmonic sound
components. While the harmonic components, generated by the oscillatory motion of the …