We describe work towards articulatory speech synthesis driven by realistic 3D tissue and bone models. The vocal tract shape is modeled using a fast 3D finite element method (FEM) of a muscle-activated human tongue in conjunction with fixed rigid models of jaw, hyoid and palate connected to a deformable mesh representing the airway. Actuation of the tissue model deforms the airway providing a time-varying acoustic tube which is used for the synthesis of sound. We describe our initial validation of our models geometrically using magnetic resonance images and acoustically using articulatory configurations. © CEFALA 2006.
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Van Den Doel, K., Vogt, F., English, R. E., & Fels, S. (2006). Towards articulatory speech synthesis with a dynamic 3D finite element tongue model. In ISSP 2006 - Proceedings of the 7th International Seminar on Speech Production (pp. 59–66). CEFALA.
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