Construction and evaluation of a parametric one-dimensional vocal tract model
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Beitragende
Abstract
Articulatory speech synthesis based on aero-acoustic simulations of the vocal tract is computationally expensive and, therefore, requires simple yet precise models. Modeling the one-dimensional vocal tract area function directly instead of a higher dimensional vocal tract model is an efficient way to minimize the computational overhead of the simulations. In this paper, we propose a new parametric vocal tract model that is controlled by six points and capable of modeling a large variety of vocal tract shapes. We geometrically and perceptually evaluated the model on a set of 22 reference area functions corresponding to German vowels and consonants. The model was able to geometrically approximate the reference area functions with a minimum root-mean-square error of 0.302 cm $2$, a maximum error of 1.142 cm $2$, and a median error of 0.891 cm $2$. After optimizations, a perceptual evaluation of the synthesis using our model in combination with a state-of-the-art aero-acoustic simulation achieved a vowel recognition rate of 90.7% and a consonant recognition rate of 73.2%.
Details
Originalsprache | Englisch |
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Seiten (von - bis) | 1381-1392 |
Seitenumfang | 12 |
Fachzeitschrift | IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing |
Jahrgang | 26 |
Ausgabenummer | 8 |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - Aug. 2018 |
Peer-Review-Status | Ja |
Externe IDs
ORCID | /0000-0001-8870-0041/work/142251357 |
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ORCID | /0000-0003-0167-8123/work/167214872 |
Schlagworte
Forschungsprofillinien der TU Dresden
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Schlagwörter
- articulatory synthesis, speech production, Vocal tract models