A text to speech synthesizer for the personal computer

A compact and low cost text to speech synthesis unit for the personal computer has been developed. This unit uses an LSI speech synthesizer with formant parameters. The speech synthesis method used is based on speech synthesis by rule using the CV, VC speech segments compilation method and the glottal pole formant model. In order to obtain high quality, the analysis-synthesis technique has been introduced. The glottal pole and formant parameters for CV, VC segments are extracted by a kind of analysis by synthesis technique. A Japanese text to speech synthesis system has been developed using these techniques. Intelligibility tests for well known Japanese words indicated an about 1% error rate.