DocumentCode
1814162
Title
The control of juncture and prosody in Chinese TTS system
Author
Min, Chu ; Shinan, Lu ; Hongyan, Si ; Lin, He ; Dinghua, Guan
Author_Institution
Inst. of Acoust., Acad. Sinica, Beijing, China
Volume
1
fYear
1996
fDate
14-18 Oct 1996
Firstpage
725
Abstract
In a Chinese text to speech (TTS) system that is based on syllabic waveform concatenation, proper control of the juncture between syllables and prosody of sentences is essential to improving the naturalness of the synthetic speech. A perception experiment on formant transitions between syllables and a prosody model designed for Chinese TTS system are presented
Keywords
natural languages; speech intelligibility; speech synthesis; Chinese TTS system; formant transitions; juncture control; perception experiment; prosody control; prosody model; syllabic waveform concatenation; synthetic speech; text to speech system; Acoustic waves; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Electronic mail; Helium; Loudspeakers; Natural languages; Random sequences; Speech synthesis; Virtual colonoscopy;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Signal Processing, 1996., 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location
Beijing
Print_ISBN
0-7803-2912-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICSIGP.1996.567365
Filename
567365
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