Modelling speech production – evidence from Swedish blends

Voice source properties of the speech code

This is an outline of the knowledge we need in order to include the voice source in an advanced model of speech production with applications to text-to-speech rules. Recent results from studies of the Swedish language provide information of source properties and source-vocal tract interaction as a function of the segmental and prosodic frame within an utterance and with reference to aerodynamic...

Simulating Intonation in Regional Varieties of Swedish

Within the research project SIMULEKT (Simulating Intonational Varieties of Swedish), our recent work includes two approaches to simulating intonation in regional varieties of Swedish. The first involves a method for modelling intonation using the SWING (SWedish INtonation Generator) tool, where annotated speech samples are resynthesised with rule-based intonation and audio-visually analysed wit...

SWING : A tool for modelling intonational varieties of Swedish

SWING (SWedish INtonation Generator) is a new tool for analysis and modelling of Swedish intonation by resynthesis. It was developed in order to facilitate analysis of regional varieties, particularly related to the Swedish prosody model. Annotated speech samples are resynthesized with rule based intonation and audiovisually analysed with regard to the major intonational varieties of Swedish. W...

Modelling Swedish intonation in a text-to-speech system

SIMULEKT – modelling Swedish regional intonation

This paper introduces a new research project Simulating Intonational Varieties of Swedish (SIMULEKT). The basic goal of the project is to produce more precise and thorough knowledge about some major intonational varieties of Swedish. In this research effort the Swedish prosody model plays a prominent role. A fundamental idea is to take advantage of speech synthesis in different forms. In our an...