TY  - GEN
T1  - Investigating larynx height with an articulatory speech synthesizer
T3  - Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences : ICPhS XVI, 6 - 10 August 2007, Saarbrücken, Germany. - Vol. 3. - Saarbrücken : Univ. des Saarlandes, 2007, S. 2213-2216
A1  - Lasarcyk,Eva
Y1  - 2008/06/30
N2  - In this paper, we present a comparative study of natural and synthetic speech samples which vary in larynx height. The acoustics of isolated vowels was analyzed with respect to formant frequency changes and changes in voice quality. The synthetic stimuli show the same characteristics as the natural stimuli when special attention is paid to the synthetic excitation quality. One issue addressed behind this study is how the naturalness of speech synthesis can be improved by manipulating voice quality. Another issue is to find out how well the articulatory speech synthesizer used matches the real speech production process.
CY  - Saarbrücken
PB  - Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
AD  - Postfach 151141, 66041 Saarbrücken
UR  - http://scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2008/1543
ER  -