| Abstrakt: |
An attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of three sets of formant synthesizer control signals, derived by different means, has utilized VCV utterances in which the C's were one of the six stop consonants and the V's were one of the six vowels, /i, e, a, o, u, Λ/. The stops are the most quickly articulated phonemes and the first five of the vowels are tense and are thus articulated at positions most removed from the central articulatory configuration, which is represented by the last vowel, /Λ/. Use of these utterances is predicated on the idea that the stops and the tense vowels make the greatest demands on synthesizer performance and are hence most suited for evaluation. Two tests have been run: (1) an identification test for each of the consonants and (2) comparisons of the same consonant produced by different means. Results for the labial stops, /b, p/, were presented at the 82nd Meeting of the Society in Denver, and this paper will present the results for the remaining stops, /d, t, g, k/. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
