Concatenative synthesis

Fujisaki model were ignored. While the Tilt model is no more plausible as a means of intonation production that say concatenative synthesis, it was designed so that its parameters would have a clear linguistic interpretation. 

Section 16.1. From Concatenative Synthesis to Unit Selection... 

This use of the LP model leads us to the technique called concatenative synthesis. Here, no explicit vocal-tract modelling is performed rather, an exhaustive set of units is acquired and synthesis is performed by concatenating these units in appropriate order. The targets and transitions are stored within the units, and, so long as suitable units and good original speech are used, it should be possible to generate reahstic parameter patterns via the concatenation technique. 

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