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1st ETRW on Speech Production Modeling:
From Control Strategies to Acoustics
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1st ETRW on Speech Production Modeling:
From Control Strategies to Acoustics
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The present work aims at demonstrating the feasibility of high quality articulatory synthesis for fricative consonants, and in particular to match a given reference subject. The synthesiser includes an articulatory model based on cineradiographic pictures of the subject, and a simplified aerodynamic model. Two approaches have been used: direct articulatory copy synthesis, and copy synthesis by acoustic-to-articulatory inversion. Coordination between supralaryngeal and laryngeal articulators has been quasi-automatically determined, based on supplementary aero-dynamic data. A set of VFV spatio-temporal examplars has finally been built, and should serve to establish sensory-motor templates for synthesis.
Bibliographic reference. Badin, Pierre / Mawass, K. / Bailly, Gérard / Vescovi, C. / Beautemps, D. / Pelorson, X. (1996): "Articulatory synthesis of fricative consonants: data and models", In SPM-1996, 221-224.