Title :
A development of the stand-alone Audiotex system
Author :
Jeong, YouHyeon ; Yi, Sionghun
Author_Institution :
Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Taejon, South Korea
Abstract :
Audiotex is a general system that combines computers and telephones to deliver audio information by adopting text-to-speech (TTS) technology. The TTS is a technology that converts text messages into synthetic speech based on both linguistic analysis of the text and the acoustic knowledge of the production of speech sounds. This paper describes the architecture and features of the Korean stand-alone Audiotex system. In this system, we adopt the pitch synchronous overlap and add (PSOLA) algorithm as the synthesis method. The system is composed of a public switched telephone network interface unit, a main control unit, a data interface unit, and a TTS synthesis unit. It can be applied to a variety of reading services when connected to a host computer and a telephone network
Keywords :
acoustic signal processing; linguistics; speech synthesis; switching networks; telecommunication computing; telephone networks; PSOLA algorithm; PSTN interface unit; TTS synthesis unit; acoustic knowledge; audio information; control unit; data interface unit; host computer; linguistic analysis; pitch synchronous overlap and add algorithm; public switched telephone network; reading services; speech sounds production; stand-alone Audiotex system; synthetic speech; telephones; text messages; text to speech technology; Application software; Computer networks; Control system synthesis; Databases; Natural languages; Network interfaces; Network synthesis; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Communication Technology Proceedings, 1996. ICCT'96., 1996 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2916-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICCT.1996.545217
