1st ETRW on Speech Production Modeling: From Control Strategies to Acoustics 4th Speech Production Seminar: Models and Data Autrans, France May 20-24, 1996

The Ears are Not Sensitive to Certain Coarticulatory Variations: Results from VCV Synthesis/Perceptual Experiments

René Carré (1), Samir Chennoukh (1), Paul Jospa (2), Shinji Maeda (1)

(1) ENST, Dept. Signal, Unite Associee au CNRS, Paris, France
(2) Institut des Langues et Phonétique, Université Libre, Bruxelles, Belgium

A high degree of coarticulatory variabilities is observed in articulatory and acoustic data. In this paper, we investigated the perceptual effects of the variabilities using stimuli synthesized with a model of vocal-tract area function, DRM model. Perceptual tests showed that the ears are tolerant to a considerable degree of such variations.

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Bibliographic reference.  Carré, René / Chennoukh, Samir / Jospa, Paul / Maeda, Shinji (1996): "The ears are not sensitive to certain coarticulatory variations: results from VCV synthesis/perceptual experiments", In SPM-1996, 13-16.