Title :
Recent progress in automatic text-to-speech synthesis
Author :
Shaughnessy, Douglas O.
Author_Institution :
INRS-Telecommun., Quebec Univ., Nuns Island, Que., Canada
Abstract :
Automatic text-to-speech systems have existed for several languages for some time now, which yield intelligible but unnatural synthetic speech. Quality imperfections are usually due to inadequate modeling of human speech production in coarticulation, intonation, and vocal-tract excitation. The author examines current approaches and progress in these areas and discusses the compromises that are often made
Keywords :
speech synthesis; voice equipment; automatic text-to-speech synthesis; coarticulation; human speech modelling; intonation; quality imperfections; synthetic speech; vocal-tract excitation; Business; Frequency; Humans; Natural languages; Shape control; Speech analysis; Speech processing; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; Vocoders;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the 36th Midwest Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Detroit, MI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1760-2
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.1993.343406
