Influence of vocal tract geometry simplifications on the numerical simulation of vowel sounds

M Arnela, S Dabbaghchian, R Blandin… - The Journal of the …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
For many years, the vocal tract shape has been approximated by one-dimensional (1D) area
functions to study the production of voice. More recently, 3D approaches allow one to deal …

Effects of higher order propagation modes in vocal tract like geometries

R Blandin, M Arnela, R Laboissière… - The Journal of the …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, a multimodal theory accounting for higher order acoustical propagation modes
is presented as an extension to the classical plane wave theory. This theoretical …

MRI-based vocal tract representations for the three-dimensional finite element synthesis of diphthongs

M Arnela, S Dabbaghchian, O Guasch… - … /ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The synthesis of diphthongs in three-dimensions (3D) involves the simulation of acoustic
waves propagating through a complex 3D vocal tract geometry that deforms over time …

Formant frequencies and bandwidths of the vocal tract transfer function are affected by the mechanical impedance of the vocal tract wall

M Fleischer, S Pinkert, W Mattheus, A Mainka… - … and modeling in …, 2015 - Springer
The acoustical properties of the vocal tract, the air-filled cavity between the vocal folds and
the mouth opening, are determined by its individual geometry, the physical properties of the …

Effects of head geometry simplifications on acoustic radiation of vowel sounds based on time-domain finite-element simulations

M Arnela, O Guasch, F Alías - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
One of the key effects to model in voice production is that of acoustic radiation of sound
waves emanating from the mouth. The use of three-dimensional numerical simulations …

Influence of lips on the production of vowels based on finite element simulations and experiments

M Arnela, R Blandin, S Dabbaghchian… - The Journal of the …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Three-dimensional (3-D) numerical approaches for voice production are currently being
investigated and developed. Radiation losses produced when sound waves emanate from …

Controlling chaotic vocal fold oscillations in the numerical production of vowel sounds

O Guasch, M Freixes, M Arnela, A Van Hirtum - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
Lumped mass models have been studied in depth to unveil the complex nonlinear physics
of phonation. Even in the case of simple symmetric models, slight changes in muscle …

A stabilized finite element method for the mixed wave equation in an ALE framework with application to diphthong production

O Guasch, M Arnela, R Codina… - Acta Acustica united …, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Working with the wave equation in mixed rather than irreducible form allows one to directly
account for both, the acoustic pressure field and the acoustic particle velocity field. Indeed …

Two-dimensional vocal tracts with three-dimensional behavior in the numerical generation of vowels

M Arnela, O Guasch - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Two-dimensional (2D) numerical simulations of vocal tract acoustics may provide a good
balance between the high quality of three-dimensional (3D) finite element approaches and …

Glottal source contribution to higher order modes in the finite element synthesis of vowels

M Freixes, M Arnela, JC Socoró, F Alías, O Guasch - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Articulatory speech synthesis has long been based on one-dimensional (1D) approaches.
They assume plane wave propagation within the vocal tract and disregard higher order …