Essays about: "formants"
Found 3 essays containing the word formants.
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1. Sonificiation of Twitter hashtags using earcons based on vowel formants
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : The amount of notifications we receive from our digital devices is higher today than ever, often causing distress in users constantly having to move their devices into the center of attention, digesting the information received visually. By using earcons, a sonic abstraction of the underlying information, we can give the users an understanding of what information is received by allowing them to digest in auditorily. READ MORE
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2. Emotionally expressive song synthesis using formants and syllables
University essay from KTH/Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC)Abstract : Speech synthesis is an area of computer science with many practical uses, such as enabling people with visual impairments to take part of text and to provide more human-like feedback from information systems. A similar area of research is text-to-song, where systems comparable to those used in text-to-speech pro- vide mappings from text to melodic units of song. READ MORE
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3. Mapping articulatory parameters on formant patterns : From articulations to acoustics non-stop
University essay from Avdelningen för fonetikAbstract : The traditional way of estimating the formant frequencies from articulatory data presupposes knowledge of how the vocal tract cross-sectional area varies for a given articulatory shape (Fant 1960/1970). Accordingly, in order to derive the formant pattern of a given articulation, the three-dimensional shape of the vocal tract (VT) needs to be known. READ MORE
