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Vowel posture normalization.

M Hashi1, J R Westbury, K Honda

  • 1Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53705-2280, USA.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|September 24, 1999
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A new normalization method creates speaker-general vowel postures from articulatory data. It reduces vocal tract size effects, particularly palatal height, but not tongue front-back positioning.

Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Speech Science
  • Phonetics

Background:

  • Articulatory data analysis requires methods to account for individual vocal tract variations.
  • Understanding average vowel postures is crucial for phonetics and speech production research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a normalization procedure for point-parametrized articulatory data.
  • To derive quantitative, speaker-general descriptions of vowel postures.
  • To minimize the impact of vocal tract size and shape on articulatory measurements.

Main Methods:

  • Applied a simple normalization procedure to articulatory data from English and Japanese speakers.
  • Utilized existing x-ray microbeam database corpora.
  • Analyzed cross-speaker variance in normalized articulatory space (x and y dimensions).

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Main Results:

  • The normalization procedure successfully reduced cross-speaker variance in the y dimension (palatal height).
  • Variance in the x dimension (tongue front-back position) was not significantly reduced.
  • Identified habitual fronted or rearward tongue positioning as a source of x-dimension variability.

Conclusions:

  • The normalization method effectively standardizes articulatory data concerning palatal height.
  • Interspeaker variability in tongue positioning (x-dimension) remains a challenge for speaker-general models.
  • Further research is needed to evaluate normalization schemes and understand sources of articulatory variability.