Using GAs to create a waveguide model of the oral vocal tract

C H V Cooper; D M Howard; A M Tyrrell

Using GAs to create a waveguide model of the oral vocal tract

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Abstract

A Digital Waveguide Mesh is introduced as a method for acoustic modelling. Genetic Algorithms are applied to evolve the structure of a mesh to simulate the human throat and mouth, producing vowel-like sounds. The evolved shapes are compared to actual shapes adopted by the oral vocal tract during speech. The evolutionary methods are "tuned" for implementation on a new hardware device being developed under the POEtic project. Initial results given in this paper are promising.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	APPLICATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING
Editors	GR Raidl
Place of Publication	BERLIN
Publisher	Springer
Pages	280-288
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	3-540-21378-3
Publication status	Published - 2004
Event	7th European Conference on Genetic Programming - Coimbra Duration: 5 Apr 2004 → 7 Apr 2004

Conference

Conference	7th European Conference on Genetic Programming
City	Coimbra
Period	5/04/04 → 7/04/04

Poetic
Tyrrell, A. (Principal investigator), Howard, D. M. (Other) & Halliday, D. M. (Other)
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
1/09/01 → 28/02/05
Project: Research project (funded) › Research

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Using GAs to create a waveguide model of the oral vocal tract

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