Title :
A simplified engineering super-set of phonetic notation for European multi-language text to speech development
Author :
Yu, Zhenli ; Qian, Ping ; Yue, Dongjian
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng. & Innovation, Shanghai Inst. of Technol., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
In this paper, an approach of designing a simplified engineering super-set of phonetic notation (abbreviated SESSet) for European multi-language Text-to-Speech (TTS) is presented. The super-set´s representation is engineering encoding of IPA. It covers 8 languages that belong to 3 language groups of Indo-European family. For engineering purpose, the proposed SESSet is designed as machine readable, easy typing-in and convenient for programming. Every phonemic notation takes two 7-bit ASCII letters. The whole SESSet contains 91 phonemes that are able to describe 342 phonemes of all 8 languages. The sharing factor of phonemic notation for the 8 languages is 3.7, which means significant resource saving as the SESSet is adopted for engineering realization of multi-language TTS.
Keywords :
speech processing; speech synthesis; European multi-language text to speech development; simplified engineering super-set of phonetic notation; Computers; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Europe; Programming; Speech; Speech processing;
Conference_Titel :
Audio Language and Image Processing (ICALIP), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5856-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICALIP.2010.5685087
