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

Articulatory and Acoustic Simulations of VV Transitions with a 2D Biomechanical Tongue Model Controlled by the Equilibrium Point Hypothesis

Yohan Payan, Pascal Perrier

Institutde la Communication Parlée, UPRESA CNRS 5009, INPG & Université Stendhal, Grenoble, France

A model of speech motor control is presented, based on Feldman's (1966) Equilibrium Point Hypothesis. An assessment of this model is proposed, including the control of a 2D biomechanical model of the tongue. Articulatory and acoustic patterns synthesized with this model for various vowel-to-vowel transitions, are compared to data collected on a French native speaker, with an electromagnetic midsagittal articulometer.

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Bibliographic reference.  Payan, Yohan / Perrier, Pascal (1996): "Articulatory and acoustic simulations of VV transitions with a 2d biomechanical tongue model controlled by the equilibrium point hypothesis", In SPM-1996, 121-124.