Voice synthesis application based on syllable concatenation

Author

Buza, O. ; Toderean, G.I. ; Domokos, J. ; Bodo, A. Zs

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. of Cluj, Cluj-Napoca

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

22-25 May 2008

Firstpage

473

Lastpage

478

Abstract

This article presents a voice synthesis application based on syllable concatenation. The system is dedicated for Romanian language, so it was need to work on special rules to decompose Romanian text into syllables. Also for preserving initial prosody of text, accentuation of syllables inside word had to be determined. Then we have recorded a vocal database with the most frequent syllables of Romanian language. A unit matching algorithm matches linguistic units from the input text and acoustic units from database. Acoustic units are then concatenated and converted into sound by mean of a synthesizer.

Keywords

acoustic signal processing; linguistics; natural language processing; speech synthesis; text analysis; Romanian language; Romanian text decomposition; acoustic units; linguistic units; syllable concatenation; syllables accentuation; unit matching algorithm; vocal database; voice synthesis; Acoustic signal detection; Acoustic waves; Databases; Information analysis; Natural languages; Particle separators; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Stress; Text analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics, 2008. AQTR 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cluj-Napoca

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2576-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2577-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AQTR.2008.4588967

Filename

4588967