This is a publicly available database containing articulatory and acoustic data from 26 female and 22 male speakers completing 116 linguistic and non-linguistic tasks. The articulatory data comprise the positions of eight gold pellets placed on tongue, mandible and lips, sampled at ca. 146 Hz. A complete description of the database can be found here.
The animation below illustrates the acoustic and articulatory change during the production of the diphthong in "light". An orange line joins the four tongue points. Movements of the mandible are represented by the two mustard-coloured points, the upper and lower lip by the red points. Black lines represent the front portion of the palate and the rear wall of pharynx. (Data visualization by xassp.)
last modified 26.10.2002
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