(33) 日本語母音/a/発声時における鼻腔を伴う声道の3次元有限要素法による音響解析
第22回ファジィシステムシンポジウム講演論文集,pp.15-18,2006-9
In this paper, the transfer functions and the active sound intensities
of a vocal tract model with and without a nasal cavity were computed
by a three-dimensional FEM. The models were based on vowel MRI data of
the vocal tract with a nasal cavity during phonation of the Japanese
/a/. An oral cavity were also coupled with the nasal cavity in a three-dimensional
volume of radiation. The effects of wall impedance were also examined.The
coupling of the nasal cavity to the oral cavity indicated the following
aspects: The additional peaks appeared below 3 kHz for the lossless condition.However,
they disappeared in the simulation for the soft wall condition.The sound
energy circulation did not occur in the simulation for the
soft wall condition. As for the effects of the wall boundary condition
on the spectralenvelope, the upward shift of lower formant frequencies
were confirmedbased on the three-dimensional simulations.However the disagreements
of the formant frequencies between the simulationand real speech should
be further investigated by adjusting the wallboundary condition to a more
realistic one.