Articulatory speech synthesis offers a wide range of possibilities to
control certain aspects of the speech to be synthesized. A great
advantage is the independence from corpora, i.e. you can synthesize
speech that has not been previously recorded.

In this talk, I will first give an overview of an articulatory speech
synthesizer for German, briefly pointing out the differences with
respect to concatenative speech synthesis. The second part of my talk
will be a presentation of ideas I am currently pursuing that make
explicit use of the articulatory control feature in this kind of
synthesis. There will be some examples of speaker-dependent variations
(e.g. varying positions of certain articulators like the lips or the
tongue as base for articulation) as well as an impression of
paralinguistic phenomena such as breathiness in the voice and
laughter. I am looking forward to receiving feedback and suggestions
regarding these ideas.