Title :
Experiments in female voice speech synthesis using a parametric articulatory model
Author :
Wei, Dongbing ; Goodyear, C.C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Liverpool Univ., UK
Abstract :
A parametric vocal tract model and a two dimensional articulatory parametric subspace for a female voice are presented. The parameters of the model, which determine the vocal tract shape, can be found uniquely for VV transitions by mapping directly from f1 and f2 onto this subspace, while a modified technique involving f3 is available for voiced VC and CV diphones. The area functions of the vocal tract, generated by these parameters, are used to drive a time-domain synthesiser. Synthesis to give female speech, copied from either male or female natural speech, may be performed
Keywords :
parameter estimation; speech intelligibility; speech processing; speech synthesis; 2D articulatory parametric subspace; VV transitions; area functions; experiments; f1; f2; f3; female natural speech; female voice speech synthesis; formant frequencies; male natural speech; modified technique; parametric articulatory model; parametric vocal tract model; speech quality; subspace; time-domain synthesiser; vocal tract shape; voiced CV diphones; voiced VC diphones; Computational efficiency; Interpolation; Larynx; Magnetic resonance imaging; Natural languages; Shape; Speech synthesis; Time domain analysis; Tongue; Virtual colonoscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1997. ICASSP-97., 1997 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7919-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1997.598816
