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Using GAs to Create a Waveguide Model of the Oral Vocal Tract

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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.

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  1. Intelligent Systems Group, Department of Electronics, University of York,  

    Crispin H. V. Cooper, David M. Howard & Andy M. Tyrrell

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  1. Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstraße 9–11/1861, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Günther R. Raidl

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Parma,  

    Stefano Cagnoni

  3. Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Jürgen Branke

  4. School of Mathematical and Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 8AS, Edinburgh, UK

    David Wolfe Corne

  5. Institute of Computer Science, University of Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Rolf Drechsler

  6. Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany

    Yaochu Jin

  7. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Colin G. Johnson

  8. CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo II of the University of Coimbra, 3030, Coimbra, Portugal

    Penousal Machado

  9. ICIS, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Elena Marchiori

  10. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

    Franz Rothlauf

  11. School of Computing Sciences, UEA Norwich, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK

    George D. Smith

  12. Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Squillero

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Cooper, C.H.V., Howard, D.M., Tyrrell, A.M. (2004). Using GAs to Create a Waveguide Model of the Oral Vocal Tract. In: Raidl, G.R., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3005. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24653-4_29

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