Articulatory Configurations across Genders and Periods in French Radio and TV archives

Benjamin Elie, David Doukhan, Rémi Uro, Lucas Ondel-Yang, Albert Rilliard +1 more
8/8/2024
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This paper studies changes in articulatory configurations across genders and periods using an inversion from acoustic to articulatory parameters. From a diachronic corpus based on French media archives spanning 60 years from 1955 to 2015, automatic transcription and forced alignment allowed extracting the central frame of each vowel. More than one million frames were obtained from over a thousand speakers across gender and age categories. Their formants were used from these vocalic frames to fit the parameters of Maeda's articulatory model. Evaluations of the quality of these processes are provided. We focus here on two parameters of Maeda's model linked to total vocal tract length: the relative position of the larynx (higher for females) and the lips protrusion (more protruded for males). Implications for voice quality across genders are discussed. The effect across periods seems gender independent; thus, the assertion that females lowered their pitch with time is not supported.

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@article{elie2024articulatory,
  title  = {Articulatory Configurations across Genders and Periods in French Radio and TV archives},
  author = {Benjamin Elie and David Doukhan and Rémi Uro and Lucas Ondel-Yang and Albert Rilliard and Simon Devauchelle},
  year   = {2024},
  eprint = {2408.04519},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04519v1}
}

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