Modeling sensory-to-motor mappings using neural nets and a 3d articulatory speech synthesizer

Abstract

A comprehensive neural model of speech motor control including a three dimensional articulatory speech synthesizer as a front-end device is described in detail in this paper. The training of the sensory-to-motor mappings – which can be interpreted as the prelinguistic phase of speech acquisition – is described in detail for quasi-static as well as for dynamic articulation. Index Terms: speech production, neural model, articulatory model, articulatory speech synthesis, speech acquisition