Publications – Pertti Palo

Theses

P. Palo (2019): Measuring Pre-Speech Articulation [link].
PhD thesis
P. Palo (2011): A wave equation model for vowels: Measurements for validation [pdf].
Licentiate thesis
P. Palo (2006): A Review of Articulatory Speech Synthesis [pdf].
Master’s thesis
Unofficial errata for my Master’s thesis [pdf]

Articles, preprints and presentations

Journals

Pertti Palo and Steven M. Lulich (2021): An Ultrasound Study of the Effect of Rest Position on timing of Pre-acoustic Speech Movements [link], Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 45, 060011 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001564
Palo, P. (2021): Computer Assisted Segmentation of Tongue Ultrasound and Lip Videos [link], Journal of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Vol. 49 No. 3, pages 44 – 45.
Cleland, J., Lloyd, S., Campbell, L., Crampin, L., Palo, P., Sugden, E., Wrench, A., and Zharkova, N. (2019): The Impact of Real-Time Articulatory Information on Phonetic Transcription: Ultrasound-Aided Transcription in Cleft Lip and Palate Speech [link], Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, epub ahead of print.
L. Lönnqvist, S. Loukusa, T. Hurtig, L. Mäkinen, A. Siipo, E. Väyrynen, P. Palo, S. Laukka, L. Mämmelä, M.-L. Mattila, and H. Ebeling (2017): How Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder Watch and Interpret Pragmatically Complex Scenes [link] The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70 (11), pages 2331–2346. doi:10.1080/17470218.2016.1233988.
M. Lennes, M. Stevanovic, D. Aalto, and P. Palo (2015): Comparing pitch distributions using Praat and R [link] The Phonetician, 111-112, pages 35 – 53.
T. Waaramaa, P. Palo, and E. Kankare (2014): Emotions in freely varying and mono-pitched vowels, acoustic and EGG analyses [link] Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, Early Online, pages 1 – 15.
P. Palo, D. Aalto, O. Aaltonen, R.-P. Happonen, J. Malinen, M. Vainio (2012): Articulating Finnish Vowels: Results from MRI and sound data. [pdf] Linguistica Uralica, 48(3), pages 194 – 199.
Please note: Published also as Palo et al. (2012) in The Phonetics Symposium 2012.
P. Lukkarila, A.-M. Laukkanen, and P. Palo (2012): Influence of the Intentional Vocal Quality on the Impression of the Female Speaker.
Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 37(4), pages 158 – 166.
A. Hannukainen, T. Lukkari, J. Malinen, and P. Palo (2007): Vowel formants from the wave equation [link] Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, 2007, 122(1), pp. EL1-EL7.

Book chapters

M. Vainio, P. Palo, D. Aalto, and U. Laine (2009): Lähde ja suodin — puheentuoton akustiikasta ja sen mallintamisesta. In Puhuva ihminen, pp. 161 – 173, Otava 2009

International conferences

Articles in proceedings

P. Palo, S. Moisik, and M. Faytak (2023): Analysing Speech Data with SATKIT [pdf] In ICPhS 2023, Prague.
G. S. Orland, and P. Palo (2023): Towards Identifying Articulatory Gestures with Pixel Difference and Audio Segmentation [pdf] In ICPhS 2023, Prague.
J. Al-Tamimi and P. Palo (2023): Dynamics of the Tongue Contour in the Production of Guttural Consonants in Levantine Arabic [pdf] In ICPhS 2023, Prague
P. Palo (2020): Can we detect initiation of tongue internal changes before overt movement onset in ultrasound? [pdf] In ISSP 2020, Online (planned as Providence, Rhode Island).
M. Faytak, S. Moisik, and P. Palo (2020): The Speech Articulation Toolkit (SATKit): Ultrasound image analysis in Python [pdf] In ISSP 2020, Online (planned as Providence, Rhode Island).
P. Palo and S. Cowen (2017): Simultaneous Recording of Tongue Ultrasound and Oral Airflow [pdf] In Ultrafest 2017, Potsdam, Germany.
M. Hejna, P. Palo, and S. Moisik (2016): Glottal squeaks in CV sequences, In Proceedings of Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, pp. 1136 – 1140.
P. Palo, S. Schaeffler and J. M. Scobbie (2015): Acoustic and Articulatory Speech Reaction Times with Tongue Ultrasound: What Moves First? [pdf] In Ultrafest 2015, Hong Kong.
P. Palo, S. Schaeffler and J. M. Scobbie (2015): Effect of Phonetic Onset on Acoustic and Articulatory Speech Reaction Times Studied with Tongue Ultrasound [link]. In Proceedings of ICPhS 2015, Glasgow. Paper 840.
P. Palo, S. Schaeffler and J. M. Scobbie (2014): Pre-Speech Tongue Movements Recorded with Ultrasound [link]. In Proceedings of ISSP 2014, Cologne, pp. 304 – 307.
D. Aalto, J. Malinen, M. Vainio, J. Saunavaara, and P. Palo (2011): Estimates for the measurement and articulatory error in MRI data from sustained vowel production. In Proceedings of the ICPhS 2011, Hong Kong, pp. 180 – 183.
D. Aalto, J. Malinen, P. Palo, O. Aaltonen, M. Vainio, R.-P. Happonen, R. Parkkola, and J. Saunavaara (2011): Recording speech sound and articulation in MRI. In Biodevices 2011, Rome, pp. 168 – 173.
J. Malinen, P. Palo (2009): A Review of Articulatory Speech Synthesis [pdf]. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA2009). 14.-16.12.2009, Florence, pp. 211 – 214.
T. Lukkari, J. Malinen, P. Palo (2007): Recording speech during magnetic resonance imaging [pdf] Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA2007), 13.-15.12.2007, Florence, pp. 163 – 166.

Presentations and posters

Palo, P. and Lulich, S. M. (2021): Characterizing End Of Utterance Movements [link], Journal of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Vol. 49 No. 3, abstract on page 58.
Lukkarila, P., Laukkanen, A.-M., and Palo, P. (2013): Influence of Intentional Vocal Setting on Impression of Male Speakers. Poster presentation at The 10th Pan European Voice Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.
H. Kallio and P. Palo (2012): The effect of acoustic differences on listeners perceptions of clear news speech. Poster presentation in Nordic Prosody 2012, Tartu, Estonia.
T. Peltola and P. Palo (2012): Developing sound categories in adult language learners imitated and read speech. Poster presentation in International Symposium on Imitation and Convergence in Speech 2012.

National conferences

Articles in proceedings

T. Peltola, P. Palo, and O. Aaltonen (2013): A Short Term Study of Hungarians Learning Finnish Vowels. In XXVIII Fonetiikan päivät, Turku, Finland, pp. 66 – 71.
P. Palo, D. Aalto, O. Aaltonen, R.-P. Happonen, J. Malinen, and M. Vainio (2012): Articulating Finnish Vowels: Results from MRI and sound data. In XXVII Fonetiikan päivät – The Phonetics Symposium 2012 , pp. 45 – 47, Tallinn, Estonia.
S. Ojala, and P. Palo (2012): A Sign Annotation Tool for Phoneticians. In XXVII Fonetiikan päivät – The Phonetics Symposium 2012 , pp. 41 – 44, Tallinn, Estonia.
T. Lukkari, J. Malinen, and P. Palo (2008): Puheen äänittäminen magneettiresonanssikuvauksen aikana. Fonetiikan päivät 2008, 11.-12.1.2008, Tampere, pp. 57 – 64.
M. Lennes, D. Aalto, and P. Palo (2008): Suomen, venäjän ja hollannin puhujien perustaajuusjakaumat: alustavia tuloksia. Fonetiikan päivät 2008, 11.-12.1.2008, Tampere, pp. 147 – 156.
A. Hannukainen, T. Lukkari, J. Malinen, and P. Palo (2006): Formants and vowel sounds by the Finite Element Method [pdf] The Phonetics Symposium 2006, 30.-31.8.2006, Helsinki, pp. 24 — 33.

Presentations and posters

P. Palo, J. Šimko, and M. Lehtinen (2017): Effect of Phonetic Onset on Acoustic and Articulatory Speech Reaction Times Studied with Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA). Oral presentation at Fonetiikan Päivät 2017, Jyväskylä.
P. Palo, S. Schaeffler, and J. M. Scobbie (2016): Patterns of Articulatory Activation in Delayed Naming. Oral presentation at Fonetiikan Päivät 2016, Oulu.
P. Palo, S. Schaeffler, and J. M. Scobbie (2016): Identifying the First Structure to Move in Ultrasound Videos. Poster presentation at Fonetiikan Päivät 2016, Oulu.
P. Palo, S. Schaeffler, and J. M. Scobbie (2016): Patterns of Articulatory Activation in Delayed Naming. Poster presentation at BAAP 2016, Lancaster.
P. Palo, S. Schaeffler, and J. M. Scobbie (2016): Identifying the First Structure to Move in Ultrasound Videos. Poster presentation at BAAP 2016, Lancaster.
M. Hejná, P. Palo, and S. Moisik (2016): Glottal squeaks. Oral presentation at BAAP 2016, Lancaster.
P. Palo, S. Schaeffler, and J. M. Scobbie (2015): Determination of Articulatory Reaction Time by Automatic Segmentation of Tongue Ultrasound. Oral presentation at Fonetiikan päivät 2015, Aalto University, Helsinki.
A. Hannukainen, J. Malinen, T. Murtola, and P. Palo (2015): Simulation of Vowel Sounds with 3D Printed Vocal Tracts. Demonstration at Fonetiikan päivät 2015, Aalto University, Helsinki.
P. Palo, S. Schaeffler, and J. M. Scobbie (2014): Characteristics of First Pre-Speech Tongue Movements. Oral presentation at BAAP 2014, Oxford.