Implementation and evaluation of a Greek Text To Speech System based on an Harmonic plus Noise Model

Author

Vasilopoulos, Ioannis V. ; Prayati, Aggeliki S. ; Athanasopoulos, Antonis V.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Patras, Patras

Volume

53

Issue

2

fYear

2007

fDate

5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

585

Lastpage

592

Abstract

The use of text to speech (TTS) systems beyond pure scientific applications has been gaining ground and has been incorporated in everyday life aspects. Thus, the development of TTS system, that can produce synthesized speech of high quality is more than necessary in state-of-the-art everyday life applications. This paper evaluates the performance of a TTS using harmonic plus noise model (HNM) - a speech analysis/synthesis algorithm, as part of its DSP module. A TTS for the Greek language is studied with respect to its DSP module and an evaluation is presented of the HNM algorithm in terms of overall performance and the impact of its attributes on the results quality.

Keywords

natural language processing; speech processing; speech synthesis; text analysis; DSP module; Greek text to speech system; harmonic plus noise model; speech analysis; speech synthesis; Acoustic noise; Acoustical engineering; Computational modeling; Digital signal processing; Humans; Informatics; Signal processing algorithms; Signal synthesis; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2007.381733

Filename

4266946