Abstract
The articulatory distinctiveness among vowels has been frequently characterized descriptively based on tongue height and front-back position; however, very few empirical methods have been proposed to characterize vowels based on time-varying articulatory characteristics. Such information is not only needed to improve knowledge about the articulation of vowels but also to determine the contribution of articulatory imprecision to poor speech intelligibility. In this paper, a novel statistical shape analysis was used to derive a vowel space that depicted the quantified articulatory distinctiveness among vowels based on tongue and lip movements. The effectiveness of the approach was supported by vowel classification accuracy of up to 91.7%. The theoretical relevance and clinical implication of the derived vowel space were discussed.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 277-280 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2011 |
| Event | 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2011 - Florence, Italy Duration: Aug 27 2011 → Aug 31 2011 |
Keywords
- Articulatory vowel space
- Multi-dimensional scaling
- Procrustes analysis
- Speech production
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Signal Processing
- Software
- Modeling and Simulation