A speech synthesizer for Mandarin Chinese

Author

Koh, S.N. ; Sivaprakasapillai, P. ; Lee, T.M. ; Lee, W.H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Inst., Singapore

Volume

36

Issue

4

fYear

1990

fDate

11/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

912

Lastpage

917

Abstract

The design and implementation of a linear predictive coding (LPC) speech synthesizer using a general-purpose floating-point 32-bit digital signal processing (DSP) chip for Mandarin Chinese are described. The hardware synthesizer board consists of a plug-in card which can be installed in a personal computer (PC). The software consists of a hand-optimized DSP assembly program which can be downloaded from the host PC to the synthesizer RAM for real-time speech synthesis. Computer programs in Pascal have also been developed to extract the ten reflection coefficients, pitch, and gain values for the LPC synthesizer. A database of LPC parameters comprising the 56 Mandarin phonemes and the four standard pitch contours corresponding to the four lexical tones of monosyllabic Mandarin has also been created for the synthesizer

Keywords

digital signal processing chips; encoding; filtering and prediction theory; speech synthesis; 32 bit; DSP assembly program; LPC parameters; LPC synthesizer; Mandarin Chinese; Pascal; RAM; computer programs; database; floating point DSP; gain; general purpose DSP chip; lexical tones; linear predictive coding; monosyllabic Mandarin; personal computer; phonemes; pitch; plug-in card; real-time speech synthesis; reflection coefficients; software; speech synthesizer; Assembly; Digital signal processing chips; Hardware; Linear predictive coding; Microcomputers; Signal design; Speech coding; Speech processing; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.61573

Filename

61573