The authors present a visual articulation model for speech synthesis and a method to obtain it from measured data. This visual articulation model is integrated into MASSY, the Modular Audiovisual Speech SYnthesizer, and used to control visible articulator movements described by six motion parameters: one for the up-down movement of the lower jaw, three for the lips and two for the tongue. The v...

OBJECTIVE We wanted to determine whether ankyloglossia is associated with articulation problems and the effect of frenuloplasty on speech and tongue mobility. STUDY DESIGN We conducted a prospective study of 30 children aged 1 to 12 years with ankyloglossia undergoing frenuloplasty. Outcomes were assessed by measurements of tongue mobility, speech evaluation, and parent questionnaires. RESU...

This paper investigates the potential of a silent speech interface (SSI) based on Permanent Magnetic Articulography (PMA) to be used in applications involving unconstrained, phonetically rich speech. In previous work the SSI was evaluated on isolatedword and connected-digits recognition tasks with promising results. Furthermore, it was shown that PMA data is enough to distinguish between minima...

The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine place-manner-voicing features and neuromuscular substrates of articulation and swallowing in a group of nursing home residents having concurrent dysarthria and dysphagia. Similar muscle groups function in speech articulation and swallowing, accounting for the high coincidence of dysarthria and dysphagia in neurological impairment. Subjects we...

The present study examines cross-linguistic articulation rates in read speech among 28 native speakers (14 English and 14 Japanese) and 14 Japanese-English near-balanced bilinguals. The results show that: (1) articulation rates are comparable between the native speakers and the bilinguals; (2) there was a significant difference of articulation rates in Japanese and English among the bilinguals;...

The AGATE project proposed the SEPIA system that allows an assistance designer to define assistance systems added in target applications. In Interactive Learning Environments, such assistance systems are useful to promote the acquisition of knowledge. These assistance systems consist of a set of aLDEAS rules. Our study of assistance in existing applications shows that the articulation between t...

The papers presents an integrated approach to articulate software process plans that fail. The approach, called articulation, repairs a plan when a diagnosed failure occurs and reschedules changes that ensure the plan's continuation. In implementing articulation, we combine diagnosis, replanning, and rescheduling into a powerful mechanism supporting process-based software development. Use of ar...

Bilabial, alveolar and velar sounds are produced at different locations around the oral cavity. fMRI was used to localize cortical representation of articulation in seven healthy subjects during repetitive lip and vertical tongue movements as well as repetitive articulation of /pa/ (bilabial), /ta/ (alveolar), /ka/ (velar consonants) and a combination of all three in /pataka/. Centers of gravit...

C linical investigators in orthodontics and in speech pathology have conducted research intended to identify relationships between orthodontic and speech variables.12, ID For example, measurements of open-bite have been correlated with measurements of articulation. Also, such variables as lingual posture have been studied as they relate to both orthodontic and articulatory measures. This search...

Objective To analyze speech and linguistic features in children with articulation disorder characterized by consonant and vowel phonological errors. Methods Between February 2007 and June 2015, 117 children who showed articulation disorder were selected for the study. Based on comprehensive speech and language assessments, the subjects were classified into articulation dysfunction (AD), or AD...