FDT3314 Articulatory phonetics
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
(AP stands for Articulatory Phonetics (Gick) and AAP for Acoustic & Auditory Phonetics (Johnson). )
Session 1: Readings: AP Chapters 1, 2, 3 (basic anatomy and neural control). Introduction to VocalTractLab.
Session 2: Readings: AP Chapters 4, 5 (breathing and voice source) and AAP Chapter 2 (source-filter theory & quantal theory). Voice source models in VocalTract lab.
Session 3: Readings: AP Chapter 8 AAP Chapter 6 (articulation of vowels and two tube vowel models). Articulation and production of vowels in VocalTractLab.
Session 4: Readings: AP Chapters 6, 7 (articulation in the larynx and the velum).
Session 5: Readings: AP Chapters 9 AAP Chapter 7, 8 (consonants, fricatives)
Session 6: Readings: AP Chapters 10, 11 AAP Chapter 9 (labial sounds, combined articulation, nasals and laterals). Production of complete utterances in VocalTractLab. Demo of ArtiSynth, a state-of-the-art modelling system from the University of British Columbia, Canada (Fels et al.)
Be able to
- describe in detail the mechanisms of human voice production
- make basic computations of formant frequencies from geometric models of the vocal tract
- simulate isolated given words using an articulatory model of the voice organ
- give an overview of the state-of-the-art in research in articulatory phonetics
- describe the major simulation methods: source-filter, articulatory modelling, physics-based modelling
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