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The Klatt formant synthesizer
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Figure 12-8: Waveform segment and magnitude spectrum of frication noise
generate both frication and aspiration noise. However, in the cascade synthesizer
configuration, aspiration noise is sent through the cascade vocal tract model (since
the cascade configuration is specially designed to model vocal tract characteristics
for laryngeal sound s'(')im:'es'), while fricatives require a parallel vocal tract con-
figuration. Therefore separate amplitude controls are needed for frication and
aspiration in a cascade/parallel configuration. The amplitude of aspiration noise
sent to the cascade vocal tract model is determined by AH, which is given in dB.
A value of 60 will generate strong aspiration, while a value of zero effectively
turns off the aspiration source. Since frication and aspiration are generated by an
identical process in the synthesizer, Figure 12-8 describes the characteristics of the
aspiration source as well.
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