Speaker-specific Typical Vocal Tract Shapes Obtained Using Dynamic MRI
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چکیده
Biomedical imaging techniques are applied to observe the hidden process of human articulation. We propose a new approach for obtaining a typical image for a phoneme’s articulation. We use vocal tract images captured using dynamic MRI, and by considering image spatial characteristics (intensities), we calculate the average of different instances of phoneme articulation. The obtained image presents a typical phoneme articulation for each speaker, acquired during running speech. We investigate the comparability of our results with what is suggested in the literature.
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