A 3D Physiological articulatory model has been developed to account for the biomechanical properties of speech organs in speech production. To control the model for investigating the mechanism of speech production, a feedforward control strategy is necessary to generate proper muscle activations according to desired articulatory targets. In this paper, we elaborated a feedforward control module for the 3D physiological articulatory model. In the feedforward control process, an input articulatory target, specified by articulatory parameters, is transformed to intrinsic representation of articulation; then, a muscle activation pattern by a proposed mapping function. The results show that the proposed feedforward control strategy is able to control the proposed 3D physiological articulatory model with high accuracy both acoustically and articulatorily.
Cite as: Fang, Q., Nishikido, A., Dang, J., Li, A. (2009) Feedforward control of a 3d physiological articulatory model for vowel production. Proc. Interspeech 2009, 52-55, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2009-11
@inproceedings{fang09_interspeech,
author={Qiang Fang and Akikazu Nishikido and Jianwu Dang and Aijun Li},
title={{Feedforward control of a 3d physiological articulatory model for vowel production}},
year=2009,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2009},
pages={52--55},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2009-11}
}