Abstract

We present and evaluate two statistical methods for estimating kinematic relationships of the speech production system: artificial neural networks and locally-weighted regression. The work is motivated by the need to characterize this motor system, with particular focus on estimating differential aspects of kinematics. Kinematic analysis will facilitate progress in a variety of areas, including the nature of speech production goals, articulatory redundancy and, relatedly, acoustic-to-articulatory inversion. Statistical methods must be used to estimate these relationships from data since they are infeasible to express in closed form. Statistical models are optimized and evaluated – using a heldout data validation procedure – on two sets of synthetic speech data. The theoretical and practical advantages of both methods are also discussed. It is shown that both direct and differential kinematics can be estimated with high …

Date

2013

Authors

Adam Lammert, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth Narayanan, Khalil Iskarous

Journal

Speech communication

Volume

55

Issue

1

Pages

147-161

Publisher

North-Holland