Fourth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis August 29 - September 1, 2001 Perthshire, Scotland

Prospects for articulatory synthesis: A position paper

Christine H. Shadle and Robert I. Damper

Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK

Concatenative synthesis is currently the favoured approach to text-to-speech synthesis, yet it has fundamental limitations. In the longer-term, articulatory synthesis has much greater potential. Different approaches to articulatory synthesis are discussed in terms of the choices made concerning the articulatory processes modelled, the simplifying assumptions, and the data collected.

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Bibliographic reference.  Shadle, Christine H. / Damper, Robert I. (2001): "Prospects for articulatory synthesis: A position paper", In SSW4-2001, paper 116.