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Gesture-Based Articulatory Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Benjamin Weitz; Ingmar Steiner; Peter Birkholz
In: Jürgen Trouvain; Ingmar Steiner; Bernd Möbius (Hrsg.). 28th Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV). Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV), March 15-17, Saarbrücken, Germany, Pages 324-331, TUD Press, Dresden, 3/2017.

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.

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