Speech Control

Polyglot speech prosody control

Within a polyglot text-to-speech synthesis system, the generation of an adequate prosody for mixed-lingual texts, sentences, or even words, requires a polyglot prosody model that is able to seamlessly switch between languages and that applies the same voice for all languages. This paper presents the first polyglot prosody model that fulfills these requirements and that is constructed from indep...

Linguistic control in speech recognition

Neural control of speech movements

Controlling speech movements for producing the syllables that make up a spoken utterance requires a complex integration of many different types of information by the brain, including auditory, tactile, proprioceptive, and muscle command representations. This chapter addresses these representations and their interactions with reference to a model of the neural processes involved in the productio...

Adaptation in Speech Motor Control

Human subjects are known to adapt their motor behavior to a shift of the visual field brought about by wearing prism glasses over their eyes. We have studied the analog of this effect in speech. U sing a device that can feed back transformed speech signals in real time, we exposed subjects to alterations of their own speech feedback. We found that speakers learn to adjust their production of a ...

Speech planning as an index of speech motor control maturity

This paper investigates speech motor control maturity in 4year-old Canadian French children. Acoustic and ultrasound data recorded from four children, and for comparison, from four adults, are presented and analyzed. Maturity of speech motor control is assessed by measuring two characteristics: token-to-token variability of isolated vowels, as a measure of motor control accuracy, and extra-syll...