| Presentation | 2007/3/19 A speech synthesis device for voice disorders. : Its research approach and design concept Ken-ichiro YABU, Atsushi HAMA, Tohru IFUKUBE, Shigeru AOMURA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | We have proposed a speech production substitute which makes up for articulatory function, and which can be controlled by position or motion of user's fingers. Particularly, we consider auditory speech recognition process so that the speech synthesizer can be realized by few parameters as much as possible. We made a prototype model using formant synthesis software on a personal computer to get a road map for the design of the speech production substitute, and investigated about following two points. (1) We extracted parameters for the synthesizer from monosyllabic voices, and reduced the number of the parameters by listening tests. (2) We tried to synthesize continuous speech sound, by tracing a graphic tablet using a pen. It was cleared that random noise sound is necessary for the monosyllabic speech synthesis, however we got some of recognizable speech sound in the continuous voice synthesized by using the pen tablet method, in spite of they have no random noise sound. From the experimental results, some useful design concept was indicated for the speech production substitute. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Speech synthesizer / Voice disorders / Wearable / Human-interface |
| Paper # | SP2006-164 |
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| Conference Date | 2007/3/19(1days) |
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| Title (in English) | A speech synthesis device for voice disorders. : Its research approach and design concept |
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| Keyword(1) | Speech synthesizer |
| Keyword(2) | Voice disorders |
| Keyword(3) | Wearable |
| Keyword(4) | Human-interface |
| 1st Author's Name | Ken-ichiro YABU |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Tokyo Metropolitan University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Atsushi HAMA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Tokyo Metropolitan University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Tohru IFUKUBE |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo |
| 4th Author's Name | Shigeru AOMURA |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Tokyo Metropolitan University |
| Date | 2007/3/19 |
| Paper # | SP2006-164 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.106 |
| Number (no) | 613 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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