Simplified rules for parametric synthesis of nasal and stop consonants in C-V syllables by means of the “Terminal-Analog” speech synthesizer
The paper reports the results of preliminary experiments aiming at the minimalization and simplification of parametric signals used for formant coding synthesis of Polish C-V syllables consisting of a nasal or voiced stop consonant followed by a vowel. A recently developed resonance
analog speech synthesizer controlled by five trapezoidal parametric signals, which are delivered by a simple electronic ramp generator, is briefly described. Some minimal rules for the synthesis of Polish C-V syllables are given and the results of the experiments are discussed from the point
of view of the distinctness and phonetic quality of the synthetic speech items. It is shown that in the design of practical formant vocoders the number of parametric signals may be reduced and their timing patterns may be simplified without noticeably affecting the intelligibility of linguistic
information.
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 January 1965
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