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

语音是人类文化的基础，分析、压缩、合成、传输和分发语音的庞大产业已经存在。然而，一些实际困难意味着一些关键变量和它们如何相互作用只是不精确地知道。该项目采用了一种创新的方法来推导声门流动，并采用了一种新技术来在模型系统中生成精确的声流，以改进目前用于将语音与喉部声流联系起来的算法。该项目旨在提供第一个可靠的测量共振的带宽和声道的声学损失。研究结果将有实际的工业应用，也许还有临床应用。

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.