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Individual Articulator's Contribution To Phoneme Production, Jun Wang, Jordan R. Green, Ashok Samal
Individual Articulator's Contribution To Phoneme Production, Jun Wang, Jordan R. Green, Ashok Samal
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Speech sounds are the result of coordinated movements of individual articulators. Understanding each articulator’s role in speech is fundamental not only for understanding how speech is produced, but also for optimizing speech assessments and treatments. In this paper, we studied the individual contributions of six articulators, tongue tip, tongue blade, tongue body front, tongue body back, upper lip, and lower lip to phoneme classification. A total of 3,838 vowel and consonant production samples were collected from eleven native English speakers. The results of speech movement classification using a support vector machine indicated that the tongue encoded significantly more information than …