Workshop

Introduction to articulatory synthesis using VocalTractLab

Abstract

This workshop provides a comprehensive introduction to articulatory synthesis using VocalTractLab, a 3D vocal tract model. We target linguists (including field linguists) who are interested in articulatory synthesis and speech prosody. The Workshop will start with an overview of VocalTractLab, followed by a hands-on tutorial using articulatory targets of English. By the end of this Workshop, participants will be able to use VocalTractLab (i) for articulatory synthesis and (ii) to generate speech with different prosodic features (i.e., F₀, voice quality) for speech perception tasks.

Speaker

Anqi Xu is an Assistant Professor at The Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen. She has extensive experience in using VocalTractLab to model speech acquisition and generate synthetic speech.

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