vocal tract parameter sets for phonems

StefanL38

Hi,

has somebody already worked on optimising vocal tract parameters for different phonems?

I mean languages do have 40 to 80 different phonems. Not only 26 letters of the alphabet.

I played around a little bit with the TTS-demo from gadget gangsters and for example the "o"
sounds like "oi" in AC/DC's "TNT" shouting but never like a "oh!" etc.

The search function of the new forum software is kind of non-specific to a forum-number
(like just search the propeller-forum)

So if somebody remembers or has bookmarked threads related to this theme please copy & paste the links below.

edit another idea:

has somebody coded a userinterface using a keyboard and serial output or tv-output to easily adjust the vocal tract parameters?
specifying a phonem like "ong" from words like "long" "belong" "among" etc. and then chosing the "o" adjusting vocal tract parameters then hitting the "Say-key" here the sound with the new parameters
adjusting parameters again hitting the say-key until the "o" sounds like it should then adjusting the "n" and then the "g" to get a sound that can be easily identified as a "ong"

repeating that for each phonem to get a set of well sounding phonems to build words out of them.

best regards

Stefan


best regards

Stefan

Leon

You might have problems searching on "phonem", the correct spelling is phoneme.

Humanoido

StefanL38, I'm working on a program similar to what you describe, but need to get past understanding the arrays to complete it.