A fuzzy phonetic module for speech synthesis from text

Author

Mumolo, Enzo ; Costanzo, William

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettrotecnica, Elettronica ed Inf., Trieste Univ., Italy

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

4-9 May 1998

Firstpage

1506

Abstract

In this paper we describe a fuzzy system that computes the parameters needed for the synthesis of a speech waveform from its phonetic description. The system is based upon a set of fuzzy rules which linguistically describe the transitions between phonemes. The fuzzy system has several interesting properties, such as an easy management of the set of rules and the possibility to continuously improve the system by adding more knowledge to it using linguistic descriptions. Some experimental results are included, and future possible developments are outlined

Keywords

fuzzy systems; knowledge based systems; speech synthesis; fuzzy phonetic module; fuzzy rules; fuzzy system; linguistic descriptions; phoneme transitions; rule set management; speech synthesis; speech waveform; text; Computational modeling; Fuzzy sets; Fuzzy systems; Knowledge management; Natural languages; Signal processing; Signal synthesis; Speech analysis; Speech processing; Speech synthesis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fuzzy Systems Proceedings, 1998. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence., The 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

ISSN

1098-7584

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4863-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUZZY.1998.686342

Filename

686342