A simplified engineering super-set of phonetic notation for European multi-language text to speech development

Author

Yu, Zhenli ; Qian, Ping ; Yue, Dongjian

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Innovation, Shanghai Inst. of Technol., Shanghai, China

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

766

Lastpage

770

Abstract

In this paper, an approach of designing a simplified engineering super-set of phonetic notation (abbreviated SESSet) for European multi-language Text-to-Speech (TTS) is presented. The super-set´s representation is engineering encoding of IPA. It covers 8 languages that belong to 3 language groups of Indo-European family. For engineering purpose, the proposed SESSet is designed as machine readable, easy typing-in and convenient for programming. Every phonemic notation takes two 7-bit ASCII letters. The whole SESSet contains 91 phonemes that are able to describe 342 phonemes of all 8 languages. The sharing factor of phonemic notation for the 8 languages is 3.7, which means significant resource saving as the SESSet is adopted for engineering realization of multi-language TTS.

Keywords

speech processing; speech synthesis; European multi-language text to speech development; simplified engineering super-set of phonetic notation; Computers; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Europe; Programming; Speech; Speech processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Audio Language and Image Processing (ICALIP), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5856-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALIP.2010.5685087

Filename

5685087