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2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

A study on interaction between production and perception in speech communication

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16300053
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Perception information processing/Intelligent robotics
Research InstitutionJapan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Principal Investigator

AKAGI Masato  JAIST, School of Info. Sci., Professor, 情報科学研究科, 教授 (20242571)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) TOU Takeshi  JAIST, School of Info. Sci., Professor, 情報科学研究科, 教授 (80334796)
UNOKI Masashi  JAIST, School of Info. Sci., Assoc. Professor, 情報科学研究科, 助教授 (00343187)
LU Xugang  JAIST, School of Info. Sci., Associate, 情報科学研究科, 助手 (20362022)
Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2006
Keywordsspeech perception / speech production / transformed auditory feedback (TAF) / formant / electromyographic (EMG) signal / face image / articulation / tongue movement
Research Abstract

This study employed an auditory feedback paradigm with perturbed fed-back speech to investigate interaction between speech perception and production by measuring simultaneous fluctuations of speech production organs using the electromyographic (EMG) signals, articulatory movements, as well as spectral analyses, where the articulatory data were obtained by the electromagnetic articulographic (EMA) system. Chinese vowels pair [i]-[y] and Japanese vowels pairs [e]-[a], [e]-[i] and [e]-[u] were chosen as the experimental objects. When the speaker is maintaining the first vowel, the feedback sound is randomly changed from the first vowel to the second one in each pair by manipulating the first three formants. Spectral analysis showed that a clear compensation was seen in the first and second formants of the vowels. Analyses of EMG and EMA signals also showed muscle reactivation and tongue movements to compensate for the perturbations. Latency of the compensating response is about 150 ms to start and about 290 ms for maximum compensation from the onset of the perturbation. According to the measurements, it seems that in most cases the speaker attempts to compensate for the "error" caused by the auditory perturbation by a real-time monitoring, and the auditory feedback takes place simultaneously often during speech production.

  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All 2006 2004 Other

All Journal Article (6 results)

  • [Journal Article] Communication between speech production and perception within the brain - Observation and simulation2006

    • Author(s)
      Dang, J., Akagi, M., Honda, K.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Computer Science & Technology 21, 1

      Pages: 95-105

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Investigation of interaction between speech perception and production using auditory feedback2006

    • Author(s)
      Akagi, M., Dang, J., Lu, X., Uchiyamada, T.
    • Journal Title

      J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 5, 2

      Pages: 3253

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Investigation of interaction between speech perception and speech production2004

    • Author(s)
      Matsuoka, R., Lu, X., Dang, J., Akagi, M.
    • Journal Title

      Proc. KIT Int. Sympo. Brain and Language 2004

      Pages: 27-28

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] (2004). "Investigation of interaction between speech perception and speech production,"2004

    • Author(s)
      Matsuoka, R., Lu, X., Dang, J., Akagi, M.
    • Journal Title

      Proc. KIT Int. Sympo. Brain and Language

      Pages: 27-28

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] (2006). "Communication between speech production and perception within the brain-Observation and simulation

    • Author(s)
      Dang, J., Akagi, M., Honda, K.
    • Journal Title

      "J. Comp. Sci. & Tech. 21, 1

      Pages: 95-105

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] (2006). "Investigation of interaction between speech perception and production using auditory feedback,"

    • Author(s)
      Akagi, M., Dang, J., Lu, X., Uchiyamada, T.
    • Journal Title

      J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 5

      Pages: t. 2, 3253

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2008-05-27   Modified: 2021-04-07  

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