Title :
Computer synthesis of Mandarin
Author_Institution :
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Abstract :
Mandarin was synthesized using a computer-controlled speech synthesizer. The four tones and the neutral one in the unstressed syllable were constructed by varying the pitch of the phoneme string. A passage and a list of single syllables were generated for an experiment. It was shown that subjects could hear the synthesized passage with an encouraging intelligibility score of over 70% after less than an hour of exposure to the sounds. The results also showed that the quality of the voice could be further improved by proper manipulation of the pitch.
Keywords :
Acoustic testing; Audio systems; Computer science; Decoding; Keyboards; Petroleum; Speech coding; Speech synthesis; Switches; Synthesizers;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE International Conference on ICASSP '76.
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1976.1169963