Estimating vocal tract shapes of Thai vowels from contextual vowel variation

Conference proceedings article

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รายชื่อผู้แต่ง: Prom-On S., Birkholz P., Xu Y.

ผู้เผยแพร่: Hindawi

ปีที่เผยแพร่ (ค.ศ.): 2014

ISBN: 9781479970940

นอก: 0146-9428

eISSN: 1745-4557

URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84949924320&doi=10.1109%2fICSDA.2014.7051442&partnerID=40&md5=b6614c9159d71dda9ee50e4aa465fbc2

ภาษา: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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บทคัดย่อ

This paper presents a computational estimation of vocal tract shape parameters as articulatory targets of Thai vowels in an articulatory synthesizer, by means of analysis-by-synthesis with acoustic data as input. A speech corpus designed to capture the contextual variants of nine Thai long vowels, consisting of 81 disyllabic utterances, was recorded by a native Thai speaker. For each utterance, two targets, one for each syllable, were estimated by optimizing the target parameters to minimize the MFCC error between original and synthesized speech. An analysis-by-synthesis approach was used to iteratively optimize the shape parameters. The estimated targets of each vowel type were then averaged, resulting in nine articulatory targets, each corresponding to a vowel. The optimized targets were then used to synthesize Thai vowels both in monosyllables and in disyllabic sequences. The results indicate that the estimated targets effectively represent the underlying articulatory goals of Thai vowels. ฉ 2014 IEEE.

คำสำคัญ

Thai vowel, vocal tract shape