Publications

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

• Palo, P., Lulich, S. M., and Aalto, D. (2025):  Magnitude of Ultrasound Probe Misalignment Measures in Controlled Conditions – a Case Study. To appear in Beszédtudomány – Speech Science.
• 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

• Palo, Pertti and Lulich, Steven M. (2024). Some Effects of Frame Rate on Gesture Detection in Tongue Ultrasound [pdf] In: Proceedings of ISSP 2024. Autrans, France.
• 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, Pertti and Lulich, Steven M. (2024). Toward Assessing Stability and Sensitivity of Tongue Contour Metrics [pdf] In: Proceedings of Ultrafest 2024. Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan.
• 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.