Real-time dynamic articulations in the 2-d waveguide mesh vocal tract model

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 577-585

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic impedance; Acoustic resonators; Acoustic waveguides; Speech synthesis; Vocal system

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVEGUIDES; AREA FUNCTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL AREAS; DIGITAL WAVEGUIDE MESHES; DISCONTINUITY PROBLEMS; IMPEDANCE MAPPINGS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; RAISED COSINE FUNCTIONS; REAL-TIME DYNAMICS; REAL-TIME INTERACTIONS; RECTANGULAR MESHES; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; SHAPE CHANGES; TIME DOMAINS; VOCAL SYSTEM; VOCAL TRACT MODELS; VOCAL TRACTS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC RESONATORS; ACOUSTICS; RESONATORS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE;

EID: 34548061163     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.876751     Document Type: Article

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