Biomechanical tongue models: An approach to studying inter-speaker variability

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 273-276

  Winkler, Ralf ^a   Fuchs, Susanne ^a   Perrier, Pascal ^b   Tiede, Mark ^c,d  

^a ZAS   (Germany)

^b GIPSA LAB   (France)

^c HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanical tongue models; Speaker specific articulation; Variability

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATIVE INTERACTION; EMOTIONAL STATE; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; MOTOR COMMANDS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; TARGET REGIONS; VARIABILITY; VOCAL-TRACTS;

BIOMECHANICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84865703236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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