Title :
Synthesis of trill
Author_Institution :
Speech Synthesis Res. Dept., Bell Lab., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Trill is one of the most difficult sounds for speech synthesis due to the complexity of the speech signal. The problem needs to be addressed since it is a popular sound in world´s languages. Several languages in the multi-language text-to-speech system of Bell Laboratories have this sound in the inventory. The paper reports a simple method that greatly improve the quality of trill for the Italian speech synthesizer which does not require any change in the existing synthesis platform
Keywords :
natural languages; speech synthesis; Bell Laboratories; Italian speech synthesizer; inventory; multi-language text-to-speech system; sounds; speech signal complexity; speech synthesis; trill quality; trill synthesis; Acoustic signal processing; Joining processes; Loudspeakers; Mouth; Natural languages; Signal synthesis; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; Tongue;
Conference_Titel :
Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3555-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607247
