Re: Ground truth vocal tract length data?

[Heriberto Avelino <avelino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Yang,

You may take a look at the references below.

Peter Ladefoged Causes and consequences of the unequal distribution of
vowels in the vowel space. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112, 2248
(2002)

Richard Harshman, Peter Ladefoged, and Louis Goldstein Factor analysis of
tongue shapes J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 62, 693 (1977)

Peter Ladefoged, Richard Harshman, Louis Goldstein, and Lloyd Rice
Generating vocal tract shapes from formant frequencies. J. Acoust. Soc.
Am. 64, 1027 (1978)

Best,
Heriberteo

At 11:55 a.m. 22/05/03 -0400, Yang Shao wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I am trying to implement an algorithm to estimate the vocal tract
> length
> from formants by Dr. Hisashi Wakita (1977), "Normalization of
> Vowels
> by Vocal-Tract Length and Its Application to Vowel
> Identification".
> Is there any ground truth data of vocal tract length available like
> those
> of Laryngograph-derived F0 databases?  If not, any suggestions
> to
> how to valiadate the results?  Thanks.
>
> Yang Shao
>
> Graduate Research Associate
> Perception and Neurodynamics Laboratory
> Department of Computer and Information Science
> The Ohio State University
> 2015 Neil Ave., Columbus, Ohio, USA

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