Mage-HMM-based speech synthesis reactively controlled by the articulators

Maria Astrinaki; Alexis Moinet; Junichi Yamagishi; Korin Richmond; Zhen-Hua Ling; Simon King; Thierry Dutoit

Mage-HMM-based speech synthesis reactively controlled by the articulators

Maria Astrinaki, Alexis Moinet, Junichi Yamagishi, Korin Richmond, Zhen-Hua Ling, Simon King, Thierry Dutoit

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In this paper, we present the recent progress in the MAGE project. MAGE is a library for realtime and interactive (reactive) parametric speech synthesis using hidden Markov models (HMMs). Here, it is broadened in order to support not only the standard acoustic features (spectrum and f0) to model and synthesize speech but also to combine acoustic and articulatory features, such as tongue, lips and jaw positions. Such an integration enables the user to have a straight forward and meaningful control space to intuitively modify the synthesized phones in real time only by configuring the position of the articulators.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	8th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - Sept 2013

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speech synthesis, reactive, articulators

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ULTRAX: Ultrax: Real-time tongue tracking for speech therapy using ultrasound
Richmond, K., Renals, S., Cleland, J. & Scobbie, J. M.
EPSRC
1/02/11 → 31/07/14
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