CONTROL OF SPEECH SYNTHESIS USING PHONETIC FEATURES
Jon Iles, W. Edmondson · 2024
Coarticulation effects and regional accents are featurs of natural speech which are rarely apparent in' synthesized speech.Work has been carried out to investigate the possibility of providing control over synthesized speech which would allow such features of natural speech to be muddled.Providing articulatory control over the synthesis process would allow the actlons of the aniculatots to be modelled to produce the desired acoustic mutt.Complications arise when attempting to design and implement the complex oonuoi parameters for such models.An approach is proposed Which will allow some of the exibility of modelling the actions of the articulators to be combined with the ease of use of a parallel formant synthesimr based on the JSRU speech syntheslmr.