Simulation of losses due to turbulence in the time-varying vocal system

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1218-1226

  Birkholz, Peter ^a   Jackèl, Dietmar ^a   Kroger, Bernd J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Articulatory speech synthesis; Fluid dynamics; Kinetic pressure loss; Vocal system

Indexed keywords

ARTICULATORY SPEECH SYNTHESIS; ARTICULATORY SYNTHESIS; DISCONTINUITY PROBLEMS; DYNAMIC PRESSURES; HIGH QUALITIES; KINETIC PRESSURE LOSS; NONLINEAR RESISTANCES; PROBLEM-BASED; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TIME-VARYING; VOCAL SYSTEM;

ACOUSTICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; PLASMAS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TURBULENCE;

FLUIDS;

EID: 38149056191     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.889731     Document Type: Article

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