Toward formant synthesis with articulatory controls

Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 67-72

  Stevens, K N ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY;

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; COMPACT SETS; CONTROL PARAMETERS; FORMANT SYNTHESIS; MAPPING RELATION; SOURCE-FILTER MODELS; SPEECH SOUNDS; SUBGLOTTAL PRESSURE;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84966295019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224375     Document Type: Conference Paper

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