DYNARTmo: A Dynamic Articulatory Model for Visualization of Speech Movement Patterns
This is an incremental improvement for phonetics education and speech therapy, building on existing frameworks.
The authors tackled the problem of visualizing speech articulation by developing DYNARTmo, a dynamic articulatory model that simulates six key articulators using control parameters to generate vocalic and consonantal configurations, resulting in a web-based application for phonetics education and speech therapy.
We present DYNARTmo, a dynamic articulatory model designed to visualize speech articulation processes in a two-dimensional midsagittal plane. The model builds upon the UK-DYNAMO framework and integrates principles of articulatory underspecification, segmental and gestural control, and coarticulation. DYNARTmo simulates six key articulators based on ten continuous and six discrete control parameters, allowing for the generation of both vocalic and consonantal articulatory configurations. The current implementation is embedded in a web-based application (SpeechArticulationTrainer) that includes sagittal, glottal, and palatal views, making it suitable for use in phonetics education and speech therapy. While this paper focuses on the static modeling aspects, future work will address dynamic movement generation and integration with articulatory-acoustic modules.