An object oriented articulatory synthesizer for Windows

Abstract

The main motivation for this work was the production of speech synthesis with near natural quality using a modular application with a user-friendly interface. One of the most promising methods is the use of articulatorysynthesis, which is a technique based on direct modeling ofthe human speech production process. A modular application will allow the integration of several models, improved and new, in a user-friendly interface, increasing the quality achieved. The main area of applicationof this work is the study and synthesis of European Portuguese.