Studies on Speech Production 1st Edition by Qiang Fang, Jianwu Dang, Pascal Perrier, Jianguo Wei, Longbiao Wang, Nan Yan ISBN 3030001261 9783030001261

1. Emotional Speech Analysis and Recognition

• Personality Judgments Based on Speaker’s Social Affective Expressions: This topic could explore how emotional cues in speech (like tone, pitch, and rhythm) are used to infer a speaker’s personality or emotional state.
• Speech Emotion Recognition Considering Local Dynamic Features: This might refer to techniques for recognizing emotions in speech, using features such as tone, pitch, and rhythm changes that vary over short time windows (local dynamic features).
• Commonalities of Glottal Sources and Vocal Tract Shapes Among Speakers in Emotional Speech: This could investigate the physiological and acoustic factors (such as glottal source and vocal tract shape) that contribute to emotional expression in speech, possibly looking for patterns across speakers.

2. Articulatory Speech Synthesis

• Articulatory Speech Synthesis from Static Context-Aware Articulatory Targets: A method in which speech is generated based on static (non-time-varying) articulatory targets, while considering the context of articulation in speech.
• Particle Interaction Adaptivity and Absorbing Boundary Conditions in the Lagrangian Particle Aeroacoustic Model: This may refer to a modeling approach in aeroacoustics, which could be used in simulating how speech sounds are produced and propagated through the vocal tract.
• Prediction of F0 Based on Articulatory Features Using DNN: This could focus on using deep neural networks (DNNs) to predict the fundamental frequency (F0, or pitch) of speech based on articulatory features (like tongue position and lip configuration).
• A Hybrid Method for Acoustic Analysis of the Vocal Tract During Vowel Production: Likely refers to a method combining various techniques to analyze the acoustic properties of the vocal tract during the production of vowels.

3. Speech Acquisition

• Production of Neutral Tone on Disyllabic Words by Two-Year-Old Mandarin-Speaking Children: Research in this area may explore how young children learning Mandarin produce neutral tones in disyllabic words, which is important for tone languages like Mandarin.
• English Lexical Stress Production by Native Speakers of Tibetan and Uyghur: This could look at how speakers of tone languages (like Tibetan or Uyghur) handle the stress patterns in English, which might be influenced by their native languages.
• C-V and V-C Co-articulation in Cantonese: The study of coarticulation patterns (how adjacent sounds affect each other) in Cantonese, specifically the co-articulation between consonants and vowels (C-V) and vowels and consonants (V-C).

4. Phonetics

• Speech Style Effects on Local and Non-local Coarticulation in French: This topic could examine how speech style (casual vs. formal) affects coarticulation in French, including both short-range (local) and long-range (non-local) coarticulatory effects.
• Word-Initial Irregular Phonation as a Function of Speech Rate and Vowel Quality in Hungarian: Investigating how speech rate and vowel quality in Hungarian can lead to irregular phonation patterns at the beginning of words.
• Effects of Entering Tone on Vowel Duration and Formants in Nanjing Dialect: A study on how tones influence the duration of vowels and the formant structure in Nanjing dialect, a variety of Chinese.
• Which Factors Can Explain Individual Outcome Differences When Learning a New Articulatory-to-Acoustic Mapping?: A topic that explores what variables affect how individuals learn to map articulatory movements (like tongue position) to acoustic outcomes (like sound production), possibly in the context of second language learning.

5. Speech Planning and Comprehension

• Investigation of Speech-Planning Mechanism Based on Eye Movement: Research into how eye movements reflect the planning of speech, possibly linked to cognitive load and how speakers prepare to produce speech.
• Global Monitoring of Dynamic Functional Interactions in the Brain During Chinese Verbs Perception: Likely refers to neuroimaging studies investigating how the brain processes verbs in Chinese, exploring both the phonological and semantic aspects of language comprehension.
• Interactions Between Modal and Amodal Semantic Areas in Spoken Word Comprehension: This could explore how sensory modalities (auditory, visual) and non-sensory (amodal) areas of the brain interact when comprehending spoken words.

6. Speech Disorder

• Acoustic Analysis of Mandarin Speech in Parkinson’s Disease with the Effects of Levodopa: This would involve investigating how speech in Mandarin-speaking individuals with Parkinson’s disease differs from healthy individuals, especially in terms of acoustics, and how Levodopa (a common treatment) affects speech production.
• Dynamic Acoustic Evidence of Nasalization as a Compensatory Mechanism for Voicing in Spanish: This could look at how Spanish speakers with speech disorders use nasalization to compensate for difficulties in producing voicing contrasts (voiced vs. voiceless consonants).