Publication
Towards unsupervised articulatory resynthesis of German utterances using EMA data
Ingmar Steiner; Korin Richmond
In: Interspeech. Conference in the Annual Series of Interspeech Events (INTERSPEECH-09), September 6-10, Brighton, United Kingdom, Pages 2055-2058, ISCA, 9/2009.
Abstract
As part of ongoing research towards integrating an articulatory synthesizer into a text-to-speech (TTS) framework, a corpus of German utterances recorded with electromagnetic articulography (EMA) is resynthesized to provide training data for statistical models. The resynthesis is based on a measure of similarity between the original and resynthesized EMA trajectories, weighted by articulatory relevance. Preliminary results are discussed and future work outlined.