Notes by a film‐maker

Abstract

For a number of years the author has been occupied with the investigation of movements of the mouth and the accompanying speech sounds of Dutch interjections with the purpose of synthesizing with a computer the sounds and images for a video film of “speaking heads”. In this article some aspects of speech synthesis are touched upon which can be realized with the help of the MIDIM/ VOSIM‐system. The phenomena of the ‘auditive pause’, the so‐called ‘joint’ for bridging quick and strong formant springs and the analysis and synthesis (via D‐comprehensors) of vowels in the interjections are also shown.