Construction and Evaluation of a Parametric One-Dimensional Vocal Tract Model

Articulatory speech synthesis based on aero-acoustic simulations of the vocal tract is computationally expensive and, therefore, requires simple yet precise models. Modeling the onedimensional vocal tract area function directly instead of a higher dimensional vocal tract model is an efficient way to minimize the computational overhead of the simulations. In this paper, we propose a new parametric vocal tract model that is controlled by six...