Title :
Speech synthesis software with variable speaking rate and its implementation on a 32-bit microprocessor
Author :
Ebihara, T. ; Ishikawa, Y. ; Kisuki, Y. ; Sakamoto, T. ; Hase, T.
Author_Institution :
Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Japan
Abstract :
We proposed a speech synthesis method with variable speaking rate based on phoneme duration features of natural speech. The real-time synthesis software required 8 MIPS CPU power was achieved on a 32-bit microprocessor.
Keywords :
microprocessor chips; speech synthesis; 1.5 MIPS; 32 bit; CPU; microprocessor; natural speech; phoneme duration features; real-time synthesis software; speech synthesis software; variable speaking rate; Application software; Filters; Microprocessors; Natural languages; Personal digital assistants; Proposals; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Testing; Vocoders;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics, 2000. ICCE. 2000 Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Los Angles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6301-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICCE.2000.854612
