MyVoice: Rescuing voices of ALS patients

Kawahara, Shigeto; Homma, Musashi; Yoshimura, Takaki; Arai, Takayuki

doi:10.1250/ast.37.202

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“…He and his colleagues developed software in which this recording allows the patients to communicate with their caretakers using their own voice, played through a personal computer. Several phoneticians, including myself, have now been participating in this project from a linguistic perspective (Kawahara et al 2016). In this project, the recording was done at the level of the mora, meaning that /ho/ and /N/, for example, were recorded separately; however, Homma noticed that the patients were much happier with the quality of the recording if the coda nasal was recorded with the preceding mora (e.g.…”

Section: The Interaction Between /N/ and A Preceding Vowelmentioning

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Japanese has syllables: a reply to Labrune

Kawahara

2016

Phonology

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Labrune (2012b) proposes a syllable-less theory of Japanese, suggesting that Japanese has no syllables, with only moras below the foot. She argues that there is no phonetic or psycholinguistic evidence for the existence of syllables in Japanese. This reply summarises and re-examines previous experimental findings that demonstrate that Japanese does show evidence for syllables both phonetically and psycholinguistically. After an extensive review of previous studies, this reply also takes up a number of phonological and theoretical issues that require an explicit response from the perspective of a syllable proponent. On the basis of these considerations, this paper concludes that Japanese does have syllables.

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Section: The Interaction Between /N/ and A Preceding Vowelmentioning

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Japanese has syllables: a reply to Labrune

Kawahara

2016

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A prosthesis for speech sound disorders

Arai

2024

Acoust. Sci. & Tech.

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We have developed a prosthetic device for speech sound disorders based on our earlier vocaltract model. The proposed device mainly consists of a mouth piece, lip plates, and imitation tongue. We first estimated the vocal-tract area functions, particularly when the tongue is at the resting position and when it is raised up. We then tested the output sounds produced by a human speaker using the device with different configurations of the imitation tongue and open/close gestures of the lip plate. The results showed that, while the prosthetic device produced sounds of only moderate quality, the phrases became more intelligible.

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MyVoice: Rescuing voices of ALS patients

Cited by 2 publications

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Japanese has syllables: a reply to Labrune

Japanese has syllables: a reply to Labrune

A prosthesis for speech sound disorders

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