The voice source is an important factor in the production of different voice qualities. These different voice qualities art used in speech to convey among other things different suprasegmental aspects, for example emphasis, phrase boundaries and also different speaking styles, for example an authoritative or a sub-missive voice. Voice source variations are also an important means of conveying extralinguistic information of various kinds in ordinary speech. In the present study voice source variations in normal speech by female speakers have been investigated using inverse filtering. The results of the inverse filtering are given in voice source parameters appropriate for controlling speech synthesis. Accordingly, the resulting descriptions have been utilized to produce voice variations in our new synthesis system.
Cite as: Karlsson, I. (1991) Modelling voice variations in female speech synthesis. Proc. ESCA Workshop on Phonetics and Phonology of Speaking Styles, paper 033
@inproceedings{karlsson91_ppst,
author={Inger Karlsson},
title={{Modelling voice variations in female speech synthesis}},
year=1991,
booktitle={Proc. ESCA Workshop on Phonetics and Phonology of Speaking Styles},
pages={paper 033}
}