Abstract

A long-standing challenge in speech research is obtaining accurate information about the movement and shaping of the vocal tract. Dynamic vocal tract imaging data, recorded in real-time and with no requirement for sustaining postures or repeating utterances, are crucial for investigations into cross-linguistic phonemic inventories, phonetics, and phonological theory. Such data also afford insights into the nature and execution of speech production goals, the relationship between speech articulation and acoustics, and the cognitive mechanisms of speech motor control and planning. Dynamic articulatory data are also important for advancing the knowledge and treatment of speech pathologies and for improving models used in speech technology applications such as machine speech recognition and synthesis. Several articulatory tracking and imaging techniques available today – such as electromagnetic …

Date

2019

Authors

Asterios Toutios, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth Narayanan

Book

The Routledge handbook of phonetics

Pages

34-50

Publisher

Routledge