IberSPEECH 2018

IberSPEECH’2018 is currently being held in Barcelona. The GTM is part of the organizing committee, and our expert in speech synthesis, Francesc Alías is one of the conference co-chairs. PhD student Marc Freixes is presenting a very interesting contribution on voice production through numerical simulation, in which a vowel is obtained when the vocal folds vibrate, generating an acoustic wave that travels through the vocal tract until reaching the lips. In order to reproduce the vowel on a computer, Freixes and other team members of the GTM (see previous link) compute the equations that describe the wave propagation in a 3D model of the vocal tract obtained from medical images. However, the resulting vowel will also depend on the vocal folds, if they produce a more tense or relaxed phonation. The work analyses the influence of tense, modal (neutral) and lax phonation on the production of the vowel [A].

Freixes, M., Arnela, M., Socoró, J. C., Alías, F & Guasch, O. (2018). Influence of tense, modal and lax phonation on the three-dimensional finite element synthesis of vowel [A]. IberSPEECH'2018 

This research has been supported by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) and FEDER, EU, through project GENIOVOX TEC2016-81107-P and the support from the Obra Social “La Caixa" under grant ref. 2018- URL-IR1rQ-021.