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Further developments

There are two practical applications that directly follow from the presented results. The first one is to synthesize music signals. To consider musicians demands, we need to enhance the control of the synthesized signals. Therefore, in the future we will try to enlarge the models, incorporating different flavors of sound into the same model and adding additional control inputs. Especially we plan to build models for different volume and pitch.
As a second application we will investigate the possibility to use the neural models in a speech synthesizer. In this case we also have to enhance the control, to be able to represent intonation and coarticulation. The single models, however, will represent smaller entities, for example phonemes or diphones. Due to the physically oriented representation of the single entities, we expect a more natural result with compacter models compared to existing speech synthesis systems.



Axel Roebel
Thu Nov 9 12:55:11 MET 1995