Title :
The impact of relative average duration of vowels in greek on the perception of a constant synthetic speech rate
Author :
Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita F. ; Vlahakis, Michael A. ; Carayannis, George V.
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Zographou, Greece
Abstract :
The relative average duration of vowels were found to have a significant impact on the perception of a given speech rate (tempo) of a Text to Speech Synthesis System (TTS) developed for the Greek language. Even though the duration ratios vary slightly according to segmental context and word prominence, their modification beyond a certain level of tolerance, may result in the perception of a mismatch for the tempo of the modified word in comparison with the tempo selected for the rest of the phrase.
Keywords :
linguistics; natural language processing; speech synthesis; Greek language; TTS; constant synthetic speech rate; segmental context; tempo; text-to-speech synthesis system; word prominence; Context; Position measurement; Speech; Speech synthesis; Stress; Timing;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 1998), 9th European
Conference_Location :
Rhodes
Print_ISBN :
978-960-7620-06-4
