Publications

Krug P.K., Birkholz P., Gerazov B., Van Niekerk D.R., Xu A., and Xu Y., “Articulatory Synthesis for Data Augmentation in Phoneme Recognition,” Proc. Interspeech, Incheon, South Korea, Sep. 2022. [pdf]
Van Niekerk D.R., Xu A., Gerazov B., Krug P.K., Birkholz P., and Xu Y., “Exploration strategies for articulatory synthesis of complex syllable onsets,” Proc. Interspeech, Incheon, South Korea, Sep. 2022. [pdf]
Krug P.K., Gerazov B., Van Niekerk D.R, Xu A., Xu Y., and Birkholz P., “Modelling microprosodic effects can lead to an audible improvement in articulatory synthesis,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 150 (2), pp. 1209-1217, Aug. 2021. [pdf]
Xu A., Van Niekerk D.R., Gerazov B., Krug P.K., Prom-on S., Birkholz P., and Xu Y., “Model-based exploration of linking between vowel articulatory space and acoustic space,” Proc. Interspeech, Brno, Czechia, Sep. 2021. [pdf]
Van Niekerk D.R., Xu A., Gerazov B., Krug P.K., Birkholz P., and Xu Y., “Finding intelligible consonant-vowel sounds using high-quality articulatory synthesis,” Proc. Interspeech, Shanghai, China, Oct. 2020. [pdf]
Xu, A., Birkholz, P. and Xu, Y., “Coarticulation as synchronized dimension-specific sequential target approximation: An articulatory synthesis simulation,” Proc. ICPhS, Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 2019. [pdf]
Xu Y., “Syllable is a synchronization mechanism that makes human speech possible,” PsyArXiv. [pdf]

Forthcoming

Krug P.K., Birkholz P., Gerazov B., Van Niekerk D.R, Xu A., and Xu Y., “Artificial Vocal Learning guided by Phoneme Recognition and Visual Information,” In review, Aug. 2022. [pdf]
Xu A., Van Niekerk D.R., Gerazov B., Krug P.K., Birkholz P., Prom-on S., Halliday L., and Xu Y., “A computational simulation of human vocal learning,” In review, Jun. 2022.
Van Niekerk D.R., Xu A., Gerazov B., Krug P.K., Birkholz P., Halliday L., Prom-on S., and Xu Y., “Simulating vocal learning of spoken language: Beyond imitation,” Submitted to Speech Communication, Jun. 2022.
Gerazov B., Van Niekerk D.R., Xu A., Krug P.K., Birkholz P., and Xu Y., “Evaluating Features and Metrics for High-Quality Simulation of Early Vocal Learning of Vowels,” ArXiv e-prints, Apr. 2021. [pdf]