Synthesis of breathy, normal, and pressed phonation using a two-mass model with a triangular glottis

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2681-2684

  Birkholz, Peter ^a   Kröger, Bernd J ^a   Neuschaefer Rube, Christiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Triangular glottis; Vocal fold model; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

BREATHY VOICES; CLOSING PHASE; TRIANGULAR GLOTTIS; TWO-MASS MODEL; VOCAL FOLDS; VOICE QUALITY;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

SPEECH;

EID: 84865749801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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