Control Concepts for Articulatory Speech Synthesis.pptVIP

 The Synthesis Process:Text Normalisation Client/Server Communication The BOSSWin frontend for VocalTractLab The Synthesis Process:Prediction of Prosodic Parameters Control Concepts for Articulatory Speech Synthesis Peter Birkholz Institute for Computer Science, University of Rostock, Germany Ingmar Steiner Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University, Germany Stefan Breuer Institute of Communication Sciences IfK , University of Bonn, Germany 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Bonn, 2007 Articulatory Control Concepts * Outline Introduction The articulatory speech synthesizer Rule-based generation of gestural scores using the Bonn Open Synthesis System Speech resynthesis based on EMA data Conclusions Articulatory Control Concepts * Motivation Articulatory speech synthesis has the highest potential to synthesize speech with any voice and in any language with the most natural quality. To achieve such a high quality, appropriate models are needed for the vocal tract, aero-acoustics, and articulatory control. A comprehensive, configurable articulatory synthesizer “VocalTractLab”, form. “Speak” has been developed by Birkholz et al. in the last years 2004-2007 In this talk, we present a novel gesture-based method to control the articulatory movements of the vocal tract model two high-level concepts for the specification of articulatory gestures in terms of gestural scores. Articulatory Control Concepts * Concepts for the specification of gestures We investigated two concepts for the generation of gestural scores: Generation of gestures from text using the open source software platform BOSS Bonn Open Synthesis System for articulatory text-to-speech synthesis Phonetic transcription, duration prediction, and intonation prediction is done analogous to unit-selection text-to-speech synthesis. Use timing information extracted from Electromagnetic Articulography EMA signals to create gestural scores for speech resynthesis