ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1993
ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1993

A gestural approach for controlling an articulatory speech synthesizer

Bernd J. Kröger

Our concept for controlling a speech synthesizer for German is based on articulatory gestures 11,21. It is distinguished from segmental approaches 131 by providing a concrete quantitative model of articulatory dynamics. It describes intragestural movement patterns as well as intergestural coordination (gestural phasing).

Keywords: Speech production, speech synthesis, phonetics