Printable 3D vocal tract shapes from MRI data and their acoustic and aerodynamic properties

P Birkholz, S Kürbis, S Stone, P Häsner, R Blandin… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
A detailed understanding of how the acoustic patterns of speech sounds are generated by
the complex 3D shapes of the vocal tract is a major goal in speech research. The Dresden …

A multispeaker dataset of raw and reconstructed speech production real-time MRI video and 3D volumetric images

Y Lim, A Toutios, Y Bliesener, Y Tian, SG Lingala… - Scientific data, 2021 - nature.com
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (RT-MRI) of human speech production is enabling
significant advances in speech science, linguistics, bio-inspired speech technology …

Multimodal dataset of real-time 2D and static 3D MRI of healthy French speakers

K Isaieva, Y Laprie, J Leclère, IK Douros, J Felblinger… - Scientific Data, 2021 - nature.com
The study of articulatory gestures has a wide spectrum of applications, notably in speech
production and recognition. Sets of phonemes, as well as their articulation, are language …

Automatic generation of the complete vocal tract shape from the sequence of phonemes to be articulated

V Ribeiro, K Isaieva, J Leclere, PA Vuissoz… - Speech …, 2022 - Elsevier
Articulatory speech synthesis requires generating realistic vocal tract shapes from the
sequence of phonemes to be articulated. This work proposes the first model trained from rt …

Research in methodologies for modelling the oral cavity

MS Shahid, AP French, MF Valstar… - Biomedical Physics & …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The paper aims to explore the current state of understanding surrounding in silico oral
modelling. This involves exploring methodologies, technologies and approaches pertaining …

Real-time speech MRI datasets with corresponding articulator ground-truth segmentations

M Ruthven, AM Peplinski, DM Adams, AP King… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
The use of real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rt-MRI) of speech is increasing in clinical
practice and speech science research. Analysis of such images often requires segmentation …

[HTML][HTML] Optimization-based planning of speech articulation using general Tau Theory

B Elie, J Šimko, A Turk - Speech Communication, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a model of speech articulation planning and generation based on
General Tau Theory and Optimal Control Theory. Because General Tau Theory assumes …

Automatic tongue delineation from mri images with a convolutional neural network approach

K Isaieva, Y Laprie, N Turpault… - Applied Artificial …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Tongue contour extraction from real-time magnetic resonance images is a nontrivial task
due to the presence of artifacts manifesting in form of blurring or ghostly contours. In this …

Autoencoder-based tongue shape estimation during continuous speech

V Ribeiro, Y Laprie - 23rd INTERSPEECH Conference on" Human …, 2022 - inria.hal.science
Vocal tract shape estimation is a necessary step for articulatory speech synthesis. However,
the literature on the topic is scarce, and most current methods lack adequacy to many …

Anatomical inspection of similar articulations in Arabic language using dynamic MRI

RM Tolba, T Elarif, Z Taha… - … Conference on Control …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) have made it possible to
study the anatomy and dynamic motion of the vocal tract during speech production in detail …