声道シミュレータによる英語の合成について

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The authors recently reported on the special study on synthesis of Japanese syllables and sentence, through a vocal tract simulator. In this study, the authors attempted to realize the synthesis of continuous speech, the unit of which is a syllable, paying careful attention that Japanese syllables may be the C-V type composed of a consonant and a vowel mainly and satisfactory results were finally gained. However, English syllables are complicated and have a number of variations, therefore it is difficult to apply the same synthetic method to it, as in the case of Japanese language. Then, the authors carefully examined the synthetic method of English words, the unit of which is a phoneme. As the result, it has been proved that the synthesis of each sentence is possible by means of comparatively small articulatory parameters, though the control of the glide between one phoneme and another was necessary. This report shows the details of the configuration parameters used for phonemes, and some examples of the synthesis.
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