A Preliminary Investigation on the Effects of Velocity Information on Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion

FANG Qiang

Abstract Conventional acoustic-to-articulatory inversion methods usually train the mapping model by using maximum likelihood or least square criterion，which assumes all the articulatory channels are equally important.In this paper，the importance of each articulatory channel at each time instant is modeled as an exponential function of its velocity profile and incorporated into the conventional least square loss function.The loss function is applied to optimize a batch-normalized Deep Neural Network （DNN）.The result shows that the DNN trained with proposed cost function outperforms the one trained with traditional cost function.

Key words Batch-normalized DNN，Acoustic-to-articulatory inversion，Critical articulator