DocumentCode
2199617
Title
Speech synthesis software with variable speaking rate and its implementation on a 32-bit microprocessor
Author
Ebihara, T. ; Ishikawa, Y. ; Kisuki, Y. ; Sakamoto, T. ; Hase, T.
Author_Institution
Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Japan
fYear
2000
fDate
13-15 June 2000
Firstpage
254
Lastpage
255
Abstract
We proposed a speech synthesis method with variable speaking rate based on phoneme duration features of natural speech. The real-time synthesis software required 8 MIPS CPU power was achieved on a 32-bit microprocessor.
Keywords
microprocessor chips; speech synthesis; 1.5 MIPS; 32 bit; CPU; microprocessor; natural speech; phoneme duration features; real-time synthesis software; speech synthesis software; variable speaking rate; Application software; Filters; Microprocessors; Natural languages; Personal digital assistants; Proposals; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Testing; Vocoders;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Consumer Electronics, 2000. ICCE. 2000 Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on
Conference_Location
Los Angles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN
0-7803-6301-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICCE.2000.854612
Filename
854612
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