Computation of the Acoustic Characteristics of Vocal-tract Models with Geometrical Perturbation
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This paper presents computational results of sound pressure distributions and transfer characteristics for a large number of vocal-tract models which contain geometrical perturbations. A small change of the vocal-tract shape is regarded as a geometrical perturbation of the axis position of each vocal-tract section. Computation of the acoustic field in the models are performed using higherorder modes. The results indicate that acoustic characteristics in the higher frequencies are highly sensitive to the small change of the vocal-tract shape.
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