Large scale data acquisition of simultaneous MRI and speech

D Aalto, O Aaltonen, RP Happonen, P Jääsaari… - Applied Acoustics, 2014 - Elsevier
We describe an arrangement for simultaneous recording of speech and vocal tract geometry
in patients undergoing surgery involving this area. Experimental design is considered 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 …

[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 …

Modeling the vocal tract transfer function using a 3D digital waveguide mesh

M Speed, D Murphy, D Howard - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The digital waveguide mesh has been shown to be capable of reproducing the acoustic
impulse response of cylindrical vocal tract analogs. This study extends the same …

Automated segmentation of upper airways from MRI-vocal tract geometry extraction

A Ojalammi, J Malinen - International Conference on Bioimaging, 2017 - scitepress.org
An algorithm for automatically extracting a triangulated surface mesh of the human vocal
tract from 3D MRI data is proposed. The algorithm is based on a combination of anatomic …

A magnetic resonance imaging study on the articulatory and acoustic speech parameters of Malay vowels

A Zourmand, SM Mirhassani, HN Ting, SI Bux… - BioMedical Engineering …, 2014 - Springer
The phonetic properties of six Malay vowels are investigated using magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) to visualize the vocal tract in order to obtain dynamic articulatory parameters …

Articulating finnish vowels: results from MRI and sound data

P Palo, D Aalto, O Aaltonen, RP Happonen… - Linguistica …, 2012 - ceeol.com
We present anatomic and acoustic data from a pilot study on the Finnish vowels [ɑ, e, i, o, u,
y, æ, ø]. The data were acquired simultaneously with 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …

[PDF][PDF] Two methods of mechanical noise reduction of recorded speech during phonation in an MRI device

J Přibil, J Horáček, P Horák - Measurement science review, 2011 - sciendo.com
The paper presents two methods of noise reduction of speech signal recorded in an MRI
device during phonation for the human vocal tract modelling. The applied approach of noise …

Post-processing speech recordings during MRI

J Kuortti, J Malinen, A Ojalammi - Biomedical Signal Processing and …, 2018 - Elsevier
We discuss post-processing of speech samples that have been recorded simultaneously
during Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the upper airways. Speech recordings contain …

Algorithmic surface extraction from MRI data-modelling the human vocal tract

D Aalto, J Helle, A Huhtala, A Kivelä… - International …, 2013 - scitepress.org
A procedure for the vectorisation and feature extraction of the human vocal tract is proposed.
The raw data is obtained by high resolution 3D MRI. Because the amount of manual work in …