The voice: glottal flows, vocal tract resonances and their interaction

语音是人类文化的基础，存在着对其进行分析、压缩、合成、传输和分发的巨大产业。然而，几个实际困难意味着，人们对一些关键变量及其相互作用的了解并不准确。该项目使用一种创新的方法来推导声门流，并在模型系统中使用一种新的技术来生成精确的声流，以改进目前用于将语音与喉部的声流相关联的算法。该项目旨在提供第一次可靠的共鸣带宽和声道声学损失的测量。这一结果将具有实际的工业应用价值，或许还有临床应用价值。

Speech is fundamental to human culture and huge industries exist that analyse, compress, synthesise, transmit and distribute it. Nevertheless, several practical difficulties mean that some key variables and how they interact are only imprecisely known. This project uses an innovative approach for deriving the glottal flow and a new technique for generating precise acoustical flows in model systems to refine the algorithms currently used to relate speech sound to the acoustic flow in the larynx. The project aims to provide the first reliable measurements of the bandwidths of resonances and the acoustical losses in vocal tracts. The results will have practical industrial and, perhaps, clinical applications.