DocumentCode
312302
Title
Archisegment-based letter-to-phone conversion for concatenative speech synthesis in Portuguese
Author
Albano, Eleonora Cavalcante ; Moreira, Agnaldo Antonio
Author_Institution
UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
Volume
3
fYear
1996
fDate
3-6 Oct 1996
Firstpage
1708
Abstract
A letter-to-phone conversion scheme is proposed for Portuguese which excludes representation of allophonic detail. Phonetically unstable segments are treated as archisegments, their articulatory weakness being analyzed in terms of feature underspecification. Besides solving classical problems of allophony and allomorphy, this analysis provides an efficient principle for building a unit inventory for concatenative speech synthesis
Keywords
linguistics; natural language interfaces; speech synthesis; Portuguese; allomorphy; allophonic detail; allophony; archisegment; articulatory weakness; concatenative speech synthesis; feature underspecification; letter-to-phone conversion; phonetically unstable segments; Costs; Laboratories; Natural languages; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Surface morphology;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN
0-7803-3555-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607956
Filename
607956
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