Speech Research, Acoustical modeling of vocal tract

I just ran across the following reference

"Acoustical Klein-Gordon Equation: A Time-Independent Perturbation
Analysis," Physical Review Letters, July 30, 2004

which pupports to model vowels with high fidelity using a smallish
number of parameters.

Could someone more knowledgable on TTS than myself comment as to the
applicability of this approach to delivering high quality TTS with a
smaller memory footprint?

Facts of life in TTS synthesis:
- vowels are easy-ish
- consonants are harder
- transitions are the real pain
- a large part of the intelligibility is in the transitions

OG.

Yes, which is the reason why the best concatinative synthesizers are
based on diphones or larger units instead of just phonemes.

Sincerely,
James Salsman
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