Title :
Speech synthesis by mimicking articulatory movements
Author :
Honda, Masaaki ; Kaburagi, Tokihiko ; Okadome, Takeshi
Author_Institution :
NTT Human Interface Labs., Kanagawa, Japan
fDate :
6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We describe a computational model of speech production which consists of trajectory formation, for generating articulatory movements from a phoneme specific gesture, and articulatory-to-acoustic mapping for generating a speech signal from the articulatory motion. The context-dependent and independent approaches in the task-oriented trajectory formation are presented form a viewpoint for coping with the contextual variability in the articulatory movements. The model is evaluated by comparing the computed and the original articulatory trajectories and speech acoustics. Also, we describe a recovery of the articulatory motion from speech acoustics for generating the articulatory movements by mimicking speech acoustics
Keywords :
physiological models; speech synthesis; articulatory movements; articulatory-to-acoustic mapping; computational model; contextual variability; phoneme specific gesture; speech acoustics; speech production; task-oriented trajectory formation; trajectory formation; Acoustics; Computational modeling; Context modeling; Electronic mail; Laboratories; Lips; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Tongue; Trajectory;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5731-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1999.825305
