Title :
Non-Uniform Based Embedded Chinese TTS
Author :
Wang Jiali ; Jiang Baochen ; Zhang Yazhou
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Naval Aeronaut. Eng. Inst., Yantai, China
Abstract :
Corpus reducing and unit selecting is an important issue for embedded Text To Speech (TTS) systems. This article proposed one method which takes the non-uniform as the element to construct embedded TTS. It can reduce size of the corpus while keeping the quality of the synthetic speech. An embedded Chinese TTS is implemented, and the experiments show that this algorithm can produce synthetic speech with high intelligibility and naturalness.
Keywords :
embedded systems; speech intelligibility; speech synthesis; speech-based user interfaces; tree searching; Corpus reducing; high intelligibility; naturalness; non-uniform based embedded Chinese TTS system; synthetic speech; text to speech systems; unit selecting; Aerospace engineering; Algorithm design and analysis; Computational complexity; Information science; Large-scale systems; Speech analysis; Speech processing; Speech synthesis; Statistical analysis; XML;
Conference_Titel :
Information Science and Engineering (ICISE), 2009 1st International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4909-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICISE.2009.785
