Title :
A fuzzy phonetic module for speech synthesis from text
Author :
Mumolo, Enzo ; Costanzo, William
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Elettrotecnica, Elettronica ed Inf., Trieste Univ., Italy
Abstract :
In this paper we describe a fuzzy system that computes the parameters needed for the synthesis of a speech waveform from its phonetic description. The system is based upon a set of fuzzy rules which linguistically describe the transitions between phonemes. The fuzzy system has several interesting properties, such as an easy management of the set of rules and the possibility to continuously improve the system by adding more knowledge to it using linguistic descriptions. Some experimental results are included, and future possible developments are outlined
Keywords :
fuzzy systems; knowledge based systems; speech synthesis; fuzzy phonetic module; fuzzy rules; fuzzy system; linguistic descriptions; phoneme transitions; rule set management; speech synthesis; speech waveform; text; Computational modeling; Fuzzy sets; Fuzzy systems; Knowledge management; Natural languages; Signal processing; Signal synthesis; Speech analysis; Speech processing; Speech synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems Proceedings, 1998. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence., The 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anchorage, AK
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4863-X
DOI :
10.1109/FUZZY.1998.686342
