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On the Relationship between Face Movements, Tongue Movements, and Speech Acoustics

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: This study examines relationships between external face movements, tongue movements, and speech acoustics for consonant-vowel (CV) syllables and sentences spoken by two male and two female talkers with different visual intelligibility ratings. The questions addressed are how relationships among measures vary by syllable, whether talkers who are more intelligible produce greater optical evidence of tongue movements, and how the results for CVs compared to those for sentences. Results show that the prediction of one data stream from another is better for C/a/ syllables than C/i/ and C/u/ syllables. Across the different places of articulation, lingual places result in better predictions of one data stream from another than do bilabial and glottal places. Results vary from talker to talker; interestingly, high rated intelligibility do not result in high predictions. In general, predictions for CV syllables are better than those for sentences.

Source: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

DOI: 10.1155/s1110865702206046

Authors: Jintao Jiang, Abeer Alwan, Patricia A. Keating, Edward T. Auer, Lynne E. Bernstein

Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles, House Clinic

Language: English

Topic: Phonetics and Phonology Research

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,790

Funder: National Science Foundation