Devices and Methods for Noise Modulation in a Universal Vocoder Synthesizer

A device may receive an input indicative of acoustic feature parameters associated with speech. The device may determine a modulated noise representation for noise pertaining to one or more of an aspirate or a fricative in the speech based on the acoustic feature parameters. The aspirate may be associated with a characteristic of an exhalation of at least a threshold amount of breath. The fricative may be associated with a characteristic of airflow between two or more vocal tract articulators. The device may also provide an audio signal indicative of a synthetic audio pronunciation of the speech based on the modulated noise representation.