In speech synthesis, how is voicing controlled to produce natural-sounding speech?

Experiments with synthetic speech produced by the Pattern Playback indicated that the voiced stops in initial position could be made to sound like their ... These pairs of sounds are formed the same way. The only difference is whether or not the vocal cords vibrate. For example, the /b/ and /p/ sounds are both made ... difference between the stops and fricatives in the values of low-to-high ... voiced/unvoiced segments with a satisfactory high accuracy (Liu. 1996 ... May 1, 2017 ... The distinction between voiced vs unvoiced-unaspirated vs unvoiced-aspirated is the relative timing of articulation and voicing (called voice-onset time or VOT ... While the question of the involvement of the vocal cords is the greater difference between voiced and unvoiced sounds, the amount of aspiration plays a ... ... in the residual signal. In this work, no distinction between voiced and unvoiced sounds is done for extracting these features. Support Vector Machine (SVM) ... This feature appears only in stop sounds. VOT can be utilized by human auditory system to distinguish between voiced and unvoiced stops such as /p/ and /b/ in ... ... voiced & voiced sounds, voiced & unvoiced sounds, unvoiced & unvoiced sounds, and three or more elements. Additionally, Edgerton was doing research on ... ... voiced and unvoiced consonants? Four tokens of /b/ and /p/ will be used as stimuli to compare the AN response to consonants within and between voicing ... Nov 1, 2018 ... To me, there is a clear difference between that speaker's /ð/ and a /z/. Both consonants make a buzzing sound, as do other voiced consonants ...