Modeling the Talking Tongue
Olov Engwall · 2009
Electromagnetic articulography (EMA) and Electropalatography (EPG) data has been used to adjust the shape and the movement of a three-dimensional tongue model to follow the articulations of the reference subject. The EMA data was used to control the dynamics of the parameters of a three-dimensional tongue model, whereas the EPG data was used to tune the six articulatory parameters to replicate the subject’s linguopalatal contact patterns. A 3D model has been generated of the palate and the jaw and an algorithm for handling boundary collisions between the tongue and the inner structures has been implemented.