Title :
Text-to-speech system for Brazilian Portuguese using a reduced set of synthesis units
Author :
Solewicz, J.A. ; Moraes, J.A. ; Alcaim, A.
Author_Institution :
CETUC-PUC/Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Abstract :
An unrestricted text-to-speech synthesis system for Brazilian Portuguese is presented. The system is based on concatenation by rules of basic speech units. A reduced set of speech units (149) is proposed. This set comprises mostly consonant-oral vowel (CV) transitions, which represent crucial acoustic segments in the speech production process. The authors show that using this inventory of units it is possible to synthesize highly intelligible speech for Brazilian Portuguese. A CELP model is used as compression and synthesis structure
Keywords :
data compression; linear predictive coding; natural languages; speech coding; speech synthesis; Brazilian Portuguese; CELP model; acoustic segments; basic speech units; compression structure; concatenation; consonant-oral vowel transitions; intelligible speech; speech production; synthesis structure; synthesis units reduced set; unrestricted text-to-speech synthesis system; Bit rate; Databases; Degradation; Encoding; Man machine systems; Speech processing; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers;
Conference_Titel :
Speech, Image Processing and Neural Networks, 1994. Proceedings, ISSIPNN '94., 1994 International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1865-X
DOI :
10.1109/SIPNN.1994.344845
