Title :
Complements to the articulatory synthesis of formant targeted sounds
Author :
Yu, Zlienli ; Ching, P.C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Hangzhou Univ., China
Abstract :
We present the recent development as a complement to the previous articulatory synthesis of formant targeted sounds with parameters derived from the inverse solution of speech production which has been proposed previously. The interpolation formula involved in the inverse solution is modified to guarantee the good nature of the interpolated zeros, i.e., the zeros must reside in the gap of their neighborhood poles. Comparison between the modified interpolation method to the old one is given. Also, a timing procedure of the pitch-synchronous reflection-type line analog synthesizer that is controlled by the frame-by-frame segment-based vocal tract (VT) area function together with variant vocal-tract length is proposed
Keywords :
interpolation; poles and zeros; spectral analysis; speech synthesis; timing; analog synthesizer; articulatory synthesis; formant targeted sounds; frame-by-frame segment; interpolated zeros; inverse solution; neighborhood poles; pitch-synchronous synthesizer; reflection-type line synthesizer; timing procedure; variant vocal-tract length; vocal tract area function; Electronic mail; Interpolation; Poles and zeros; Pulse generation; Sampling methods; Signal sampling; Signal synthesis; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; Timing;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing Proceedings, 1998. ICSP '98. 1998 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4325-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICOSP.1998.770300