Title :
A flexible formant synthesizer
Author :
Lalwani, A.L. ; Childers, D.G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA
Abstract :
The authors have modified Klatt´s formant synthesizer and have implemented it in software. The user can configure the filter bank(s) by simple parameter specifications. This flexible formant synthesizer has been tested by synthesizing segments of sounds with a variable number of formant tracks and also with unsmooth and discontinuous formant tracks. This synthesizer can be used as tool in experiments with speech analysis-by-synthesis and rule-based speech synthesis
Keywords :
digital filters; speech synthesis; Klatt´s formant synthesizer; discontinuous formant tracks; filter banks; flexible formant synthesizer; rule-based speech synthesis; software implementation; speech analysis-by-synthesis; unsmooth formant tracks; Bandwidth; Energy states; Filter bank; Frequency synthesizers; Resonator filters; Roads; Shape control; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1991. ICASSP-91., 1991 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Toronto, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0003-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1991.150454
