The Organization of a Neurocomputational Control Model for Articulatory Speech Synthesis
Verbal and Nonverbal Features of Human-Human and Human-Machine Interaction
Articulatory Synthesis of Speech and Singing: State of the Art and Suggestions for Future Research
Multimodal Signals: Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues
Towards a neurocomputational model of speech production and perception
Speech Communication
A gesture-based concept for speech movement control in articulatory speech synthesis
COST 2102'07 Proceedings of the 2007 COST action 2102 international conference on Verbal and nonverbal communication behaviours
Phrase-level speech simulation with an airway modulation model of speech production
Computer Speech and Language
A review of lumped-element models of voiced speech
Speech Communication
An adaptive neural control scheme for articulatory synthesis of CV sequences
Computer Speech and Language
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Flow separation in the vocal system at the outlet of a constriction causes turbulence and a fluid dynamic pressure loss. In articulatory synthesizers, the pressure drop associated with such a loss is usually assumed to be concentrated at one specific position near the constriction and is represented by a lumped nonlinear resistance to the flow. This paper highlights discontinuity problems of this simplified loss treatment when the constriction location changes during dynamic articulation. The discontinuities can manifest as undesirable acoustic artifacts in the synthetic speech signal that need to be avoided for high-quality articulatory synthesis. We present a solution to this problem based on a more realistic distributed consideration of fluid dynamic pressure changes. The proposed method was implemented in an articulatory synthesizer where it proved to prevent any acoustic artifacts