  High-quality articulatory speech synthesis has many potential applications in
speech science and technology. However, developing appropriate mappings from
linguistic specification to articulatory gestures is difficult and time
consuming. In this paper we construct an optimisation-based framework as a
first step towards learning these mappings without manual intervention. We
demonstrate the production of syllables with complex onsets and discuss the
quality of the articulatory gestures with reference to coarticulation.
