Title: Gesture-based Articulatory Text to Speech Synthesis
Authors: Benjamin Weitz, Ingmar Steiner, Peter Birkholz
Abstract:
We present work carried out to extend the text to speech (TTS) platform
MaryTTS with a back-end that serves as an interface to the articulatory synthesizer
VocalTractLab (VTL). New processing modules were developed to (a) convert the
linguistic and acoustic parameters predicted from orthographic text into a gestural
score, and (b) synthesize it to audio using the VTL software library. We also
describe an evaluation of the resulting gesture-based articulatory TTS, using articulatory and acoustic speech data.
Year: 2017
In session: Poster
Pages: 324 to 331