DocumentCode :
3022523
Title :
Computer synthesis of Mandarin
Author :
Suen, Ching Y.
Author_Institution :
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Volume :
1
fYear :
1976
fDate :
27851
Firstpage :
698
Lastpage :
700
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;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE International Conference on ICASSP '76.
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1976.1169963
Filename :
1169963
Link To Document :
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