Speech Communication - Special issue on speech under stress
Speech Communication - Dialogue and prosody
Speech Synthesis and Recognition
Speech Synthesis and Recognition
Can we hear the prosody of smile?
Speech Communication - Special issue on speech and emotion
Vocal communication of emotion: a review of research paradigms
Speech Communication - Special issue on speech and emotion
Biologically-inspired control of a humanoid robot with nonlinear actuators
Biologically-inspired control of a humanoid robot with nonlinear actuators
Biologically-Inspired Intelligent Robots
Biologically-Inspired Intelligent Robots
Spoken language processing: Piecing together the puzzle
Speech Communication
Automatic speech recognition and speech variability: A review
Speech Communication
Efficient 3d finite element modeling of a muscle-activated tongue
ISBMS'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Biomedical Simulation
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
Spoken language processing: where do we go from here?
Your Virtual Butler
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Natural human speech contains a large amount of variation which poses difficulties for contemporary applications of speech technology. Following Lindblom's theory of hyper-and hypospeech, variation in speech is governed by a general principle, which is to optimise the ratio of information throughput to the energy invested. Even though such a relation is often implicitly assumed by researchers, it has never been quantified in terms of actual energy consumption. This is due to the difficulty of measuring speech energetics in humans. This paper introduces an animatronic model of the vocal tract-'AnTon'-which has been designed to quantify energy relations in human speech production. Experiments are reported that demonstrate the animatronic tongue's ability to imitate basic human speech gestures.