Voiced Fricative Phonemes

Our synthetic phonemes rely upon parameters obtained from sampled utterances. The equipment available to us was restricted to an 11 kHz sampling rate, so our modelling was performed accordingly. Our sounds are presented here in the popular .au format (mu-law companded). Unfortunately, some audio software and hardware in use is restricted to sampling rates other than 11 kHz. (An 8 kHz rate is popular.) Our sounds will vary in pitch with the playback rate but will remain intelligible. Our sampled utterances and synthetic sounds may be converted to 8 kHz with suitable downsampling.


Voiced Fricatives

ARPABET Example AR Order Original Sound Synthetic Sound
DH that 30 dh.au dh_synth.au
JH judge 28 jh.au jh_synth.au
V vat 30 v.au v_synth.au
WH which 29 wh.au wh_synth.au
ZH azure 30 zh.au zh_synth.au


Timothy D. Dorney and Robert H. Sparr
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Rice University
April 1996