Danish phonetics and Norwegian phonetics are not all that different. This fact is exploited in an ongoing project establishing a phonetic transcription algorithm for (East-) Norwegian. Using methods known from machine learning we exploit a publicly available phonetic database for Danish (based on the Danish PAROLE corpus) arriving at a cost-competitive phonetic database for Norwegian. While the...

that the same speaker will often use widely different articulator configurations to produce /r/ in different contexts. Ongoing research is addressing the addition of F3 to the planning space and the addition of consonants to the model's phonemic repertoire. It is believed that consonants, unlike vowels and /r/, may require the incorporation of constriction information in the target specificatio...

In this study the gesture duration and articulator velocity in consonant-vowel-transitions has been analysed using electromagnetic articulography (EMA). The receiver coils where placed on the tongue, lips and teeth. We found onset and offset durations which are statistically significant for a special articulator. The duration of the offset is affected by the degree of opening of the following v...

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We propose a paradigm for modeling speech production based on neural networks. We focus on characteristics of the musculoskeletal system. Using real physiological data articulator movements and EMG from muscle activitya neural network learns the forward dynamics relating motor commands to muscles and the ensuing articulator behavior. After learning, simulated perturbations, were used to asses p...