Medical electronics II: Seeing speech in real time: The deaf can now view tongue, jaw, and other vocal-tract movements on a CRT display

Kim is a 3 1/2-year-old profoundly deaf girl who spoke with the high-pitched, effortful sounds so often characteristic of the deaf. With a speech-feedback system called the dynamic orometer, however, she soon mastered speech-reproduction patterns and also began to talk in a relaxed way, in a pitch l...

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Published in:IEEE spectrum 1982-04, Vol.19 (4), p.42-45
Main Author: Fletcher, Samuel G.
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustics
Lips
Mouth
Sensors
Speech
Tongue
Training
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Summary:Kim is a 3 1/2-year-old profoundly deaf girl who spoke with the high-pitched, effortful sounds so often characteristic of the deaf. With a speech-feedback system called the dynamic orometer, however, she soon mastered speech-reproduction patterns and also began to talk in a relaxed way, in a pitch lowered to the normal childhood range. The orometer is being developed at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.
ISSN:0018-9235
1939-9340
DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.1982.6366855