DocumentCode
281578
Title
Parameter estimation for spectral matching in articulatory synthesis
Author
Rahim, M.G. ; Goodyear, C.C.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Liverpool Univ., UK
fYear
1989
fDate
32566
Firstpage
42461
Lastpage
42464
Abstract
A major difficulty in generating natural sounding speech using articulatory synthesis is the lack of sufficient data on the parameters of the synthesiser and the motions of the articulators. The author describes a method for estimating the parameters of the nasal section of a vocal tract model, using input speech spectra estimated using a conventional technique. The use of a neural net in estimating the coupling into the nasal tract is also described
Keywords
parameter estimation; spectral analysis; speech synthesis; articulatory synthesis; coupling; input speech spectra; nasal section; natural sounding speech; neural net; parameter estimation; spectral matching; vocal tract model;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Spectral Estimation Techniques for Speech Processing, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location
London
Type
conf
Filename
197937
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