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20242026
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7 papers

cs.CL2026

Articulatory strategy as a source of variation in acoustic vowel dynamics

Patrycja Strycharczuk, Justin J. H. Lo, Sam Kirkham

Acoustic vowel dynamics have some speaker-identifying characteristics, which have been ascribed to individual properties of articulatory strategies: formant transitions have a part…

cs.CL2026

AURORA Model of Formant-to-Tongue Inversion for Didactic and Clinical Applications

Patrycja Strycharczuk, Sam Kirkham

This paper outlines the conceptual and computational foundations of the AURORA (Acoustic Understanding and Real-time Observation of Resonant Articulations) model. AURORA predicts t…

cs.CL2025

Dynamical model parameters from ultrasound tongue kinematics

Sam Kirkham, Patrycja Strycharczuk

The control of speech can be modelled as a dynamical system in which articulators are driven toward target positions. These models are typically evaluated using fleshpoint data, su…

cs.CL2025

Articulatory strategy in vowel production as a basis for speaker discrimination

Justin J. H. Lo, Patrycja Strycharczuk, Sam Kirkham

The way speakers articulate is well known to be variable across individuals while at the same time subject to anatomical and biomechanical constraints. In this study, we ask whethe…

cs.CL2025

Phonetic accommodation and inhibition in a dynamic neural field model

Sam Kirkham, Patrycja Strycharczuk, Rob Davies +1

Short-term phonetic accommodation is a fundamental driver behind accent change, but how does real-time input from another speaker's voice shape the speech planning representations…

cs.CL2024

Scaling laws for nonlinear dynamical models of articulatory control

Sam Kirkham

Dynamical theories of speech use computational models of articulatory control to generate quantitative predictions and advance understanding of speech dynamics. The addition of a n…