Bio-Inspired Evolutionary Oral Tract Shape Modeling for Physical Modeling Vocal Synthesis

Journal of Voice

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-20

  Howard, David M ^a   Tyrrell, Andy M ^a   Murphy, Damian T ^a   Cooper, Crispin ^a   Mullen, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bio inspired computing; Electroglottography; Electrolaryngography; Evolution; Naturalness; Physical modeling; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; LARYNGOGRAPHY; MOUTH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL MODEL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOICE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNX; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 57949105771     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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