Articulatory synthesis of french connected speech from EMA data

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2738-2742

  Toutios, Asterios ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulatory synthesis; Electromagnetic articulography; Speech production; Vocal tract simulation

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ARTICULATORY SYNTHESIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC ARTICULOGRAPHY; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH PRODUCTION; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIMENTS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; TIME-VARYING CHARACTERISTICS; VOCAL-TRACTS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84906226748     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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