Identification of French vowels

Recognition of French nasal vowels

In this article, we shall discuss the general characteristics of french nasal vowels, and then introduce a pole-zero model in the frequency region selected by local optimization of the spectral matching. Lastly we combine the LP all-pole model with this local optimised zero-pole model for the recognition of a data base (325 words) of natural french nasal vowels prononced by thirteen male speakers.

Perception of French speakers' German vowels

Despite some similarities in their inventories, German and French exhibit marked differences in the vowel systems. Most notably, German uses both tenseness and length to differentiate vowels, whereas in French, vowel length is not distinctive. Therefore, interferences can be expected when French native speakers learn to speak German. Results of a vowel judgment experiment with vowels in minimal...

A reassessment of English vowels in French*

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The A-vowels of Parisian French

Oral Articulation of Nasal Vowels in French

EMA, aerodynamic, and acoustic signals were combined in order to observe lingual and labial articulation of oral and nasal vowels in Northern Metropolitan French (NMF) and Quebec French (QF). Inter-speaker variation observed in oral articulation suggests the importance of motor equivalence in the acoustic dispersion of each vowel system. Inter-dialectal differences observed are suggestive of im...