Title :
From sagittal cut to area function: an MRI investigation
Author :
Soquet, Alain ; Lecuit, Véronique ; Metens, Thierry ; Demolin, Didier
Author_Institution :
Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Abstract :
The paper presents a comparative study of transformations used to compute the area of a cross sections of the vocal tract from the mid-sagittal diameter of the vocal tract. MRI techniques have been used to obtain cross sections of the vocal tract in a study of French oral vowels uttered by two subjects. The measured cross sectional areas are compared to the cross sectional areas computed by the different transformations
Keywords :
NMR imaging; bioacoustics; biological NMR; speech; MRI techniques; area function; cross sectional area; mid-sagittal diameter; sagittal cut; transformations; uttered French oral vowels; vocal tract; Acoustic measurements; Area measurement; Geometry; Larynx; Magnetic resonance imaging; Performance evaluation; Pharynx; Scattering; Speech; X-rays;
Conference_Titel :
Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3555-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607824
