Waveguide physical modeling of vocal tract acoustics: Flexible formant bandwidth control from increased model dimensionality

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 964-971

  Mullen, Jack ^a   Howard, David M ^a   Murphy, Damian T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic resonators; Acoustic waveguides; Speech synthesis; Vocal system

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC RESONATORS; BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; WAVEGUIDES;

ACOUSTIC WAVEGUIDES; VOCAL SYSTEMS; WAVEGUIDE PHYSICAL MODELING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34047204921     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.858052     Document Type: Article

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