Title :
Word synthesis based on line spectrum pairs
Author :
Everett, Stephanie S.
Author_Institution :
US Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
The author described the initial investigation of a synthetic speech system based on line spectrum pair (LSP) analysis of the speech signal. The synthesizer contains a library of stored LSP speech segments extracted from natural speech. These segments are modified as necessary by a small set of context-sensitive rules and then concatenated to generate high-quality natural-sounding speech. Tests of a preliminary system produced MRT and DRT scores of 87.3 and 79.7, respectively. The LSP vocabulary synthesizer is limited to utterances of a single syllable, but future research will expand its capabilities to allow implementation of a full text-to-speech system
Keywords :
speech synthesis; context-sensitive rules; line spectrum pairs; natural speech; speech signal; speech synthesis; synthetic speech system; text-to-speech system; word synthesis; Concatenated codes; Libraries; Natural languages; Signal analysis; Signal synthesis; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; System testing; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1988. ICASSP-88., 1988 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1988.196676
