title: A computationally efficient alternative for the Liljencrants-Fant model and its perceptual evaluation.
abstract: An alternative for the Liljencrants-Fant (LF) glottal-pulse model is presented. This alternative is derived from the Rosenberg model. Therefore, it is called the Rosenberg++ model. In the derivation a general framework is used for glottal-pulse models. The Rosenberg++ model is described by the same set of T or R parameters as the LF model but it has the advantage over the LF model that it is computationally more efficient. It is compared with the LF model in a psychoacoustic experiment, from which it is concluded that in a practical situation it is capable of producing synthetic speech which is perceptually equivalent to speech generated with the LF model.
authors.affiliation: IPO-Centre for Research on User-System Interaction, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. veldhuis@ipo.tue.nl
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Veldhuis
mesh_terms: D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological