The estimated average length of the vocal tract in adult male humans is 16.9 cm and 14.1 cm in adult females.
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The gestural score graphs locations within the vocal tract where constriction can occur, indicating the planned or target degree of constriction.
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In the 1950s, researchers labored to model the acoustics of the human vocal tract and the resonant frequencies, or formants, it generates.
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Kempelen s first experiment with speech synthesis involved only the most rudimentary elements of the vocal tract necessary to produce speech-like sounds.
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Articulatory synthesis refers to computational techniques for synthesizing speech based on models of the human vocal tract and the articulation processes occurring there.
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An all-pole filter is used because it is a good representation of the human vocal tract and because it is easy to compute.
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Vowels are those sounds that have no audible friction caused by the narrowing or obstruction of some part of the upper vocal tract.
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Rosen ( 1958 ) built a dynamic vocal tract ( DAVO ), which Dennis ( 1963 ) later attempted to control by computer.
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A reed extracted from a common bagpipe was implemented as the glottis, the source of the raw fundamental sound in the vocal tract.
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As an encyclopedia of the potential of the vocal tract and a tour de force of accuracy, this performance was one of a kind.