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14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-14)San Francisco, CA, USA |
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14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-14)San Francisco, CA, USA |
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This paper presents preliminary results on difference limen for articulatory parameters. An articulatory based speech synthesizer, TRACTTALK, is utilized to generate speech stimuli. Each time only one articulatory parameter is altered by a small amount. The synthetic speech is then randomized and presented to a group of listeners in the AB form. As expected, the results show that not all small changes in articulatory parameters are perceptually noticeable. The observed perceptual limen for articulatory parameters is comparable to that for acoustic parameters. The results have been used to guide the parameter optimization step in a voice mimic system. It is hoped that these results can also be useful for understanding required accuracies when coding or storing articulatory parameters, and when processing vocal-tract imaging data.
Bibliographic reference. Lin, Qiguang / Han, Yanli (1999): "A note of difference limen for articulatory parameters", In ICPhS-14, 703-706.