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Advances in real-time magnetic resonance imaging of the vocal tract for speech science and technology research

Asterios Toutios, University of Southern California (USC), USA, toutios@usc.edu , Shrikanth S. Narayanan, University of Southern California (USC), USA
 
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Asterios Toutios and Shrikanth S. Narayanan (2016), "Advances in real-time magnetic resonance imaging of the vocal tract for speech science and technology research", APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing: Vol. 5: No. 1, e6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ATSIP.2016.5

Publication Date: 31 Mar 2016
© 2016 Asterios Toutios and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
 
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Keywords
Speech productionReal-time MRIVocal tract shapingArticulation
 

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In this article:
I. INTRODUCTION 
II. DATA ACQUISITION 
III. DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS 
IV. APPLICATIONS 
V. CONCLUDING REMARKS 

Abstract

Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rtMRI) of the moving vocal tract during running speech production is an important emerging tool for speech production research providing dynamic information of a speaker's upper airway from the entire midsagittal plane or any other scan plane of interest. There have been several advances in the development of speech rtMRI and corresponding analysis tools, and their application to domains such as phonetics and phonological theory, articulatory modeling, and speaker characterization. An important recent development has been the open release of a database that includes speech rtMRI data from five male and five female speakers of American English each producing 460 phonetically balanced sentences. The purpose of the present paper is to give an overview and outlook of the advances in rtMRI as a tool for speech research and technology development.

DOI:10.1017/ATSIP.2016.5