Manipulation of the prosodic features of vocal tract length, nasality and articulatory precision using articulatory synthesis

Secondary prosodic features contribute to paralinguistic information in speech.Concatenative speech synthesis has difficulties to control many prosodic features.Here, articulatory synthesis is used for rule-based control of prosodic features.Vocal tract length, articulatory precision and nasality are controlled effectively. Vocal emotions, as well as different speaking styles and speaker traits, are characterized by a complex interplay of...