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One of the most important discoveries in speech science was the finding that voiced speech, which accounts for the major part of most utterances, could be fairly well modeled by a pulsive source function serving as excitation for an all-pole transfer function. The source function represents airflow through the glottis, and the transfer function captures the filtering effect of the vocal tract.
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Kahn, D., Macchi, M.J. (1997). Section Introduction. Recent Approaches to Modeling the Glottal Source for TTS. In: van Santen, J.P.H., Olive, J.P., Sproat, R.W., Hirschberg, J. (eds) Progress in Speech Synthesis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1894-4_1
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