Second ESCA/IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis September 12-15, 1994 Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY, USA

Building prototypes for articulatory speech synthesis

Gerard Bailly (1), Eric Castelli (1), Bernard Gabioud (2)

(1) Institut de la Communication Parlee, INPG/Universite Stendhal, Grenoble, France
(2) Laboratoire d'Analyse Informatique de la Parole, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

We present a method for specifying acoustic targets for articulatory synthesis. The controller is driven by an "acoustic" score which specifies the skeleton of the desired audio-visual properties of the output. We examine here the possibility of specifying simple VV and CV transitions.

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Bibliographic reference.  Bailly, Gerard / Castelli, Eric / Gabioud, Bernard (1994): "Building prototypes for articulatory speech synthesis", In SSW2-1994, 9-12.