1st ETRW on Speech Production Modeling: From Control Strategies to Acoustics 4th Speech Production Seminar: Models and Data Autrans, France May 20-24, 1996

The Voice Source in Connected Speech

Gunnar Fant, Anita Kruckenberg

Dept. of Speech Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

This is an attempt to formulate an outline of the properties of the human voice source in connected speech Six levels are considered: (1) Reference data for a particular speaker. (2) Segment specific values and source-tract interactions. (3) Basic F0 dependencies. (4) The influence of stress, accents and voice intensity. (5) Coarticulation of glottal gestures and interpolation at boundaries. (6) The phrasal contour of source variations. The parameterization of source data is based on the transformed LF-model and frequency domain correspondences [3] which allows for a maximal specificational power with a limited number of parameters.

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Bibliographic reference.  Fant, Gunnar / Kruckenberg, Anita (1996): "The voice source in connected speech", In SPM-1996, 33-36.