Title :
N-Delta builder: A multi platform graphical rapid prototyping tool for the development of voice synthesis
Author :
Politis, Dionysios B.
Author_Institution :
Lab. of Multimedia, Aristotelian Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
Abstract :
N-Delta Builder is an extensible, graphical, multimodal, platform-independent application for interactive, real-time design of voice signals. Consists of two parts: the server part, which is a physically modeled voice synthesizer and the graphical client part which drives in-situ the server. This paper apart from describing the arity N Delta interfacing protocol between the client and the server, optimizes the process of synthesis by implementing a multi-platform, event driven Tool which is capable of visualizing subtle voice quantity and quality elements and handling the musical events that describe or accompany the lyrics as a constituent of its generalized object oriented hierarchy
Keywords :
client-server systems; interactive systems; object-oriented methods; real-time systems; software prototyping; speech synthesis; visual programming; voice equipment; N-Delta builder; event driven tool; graphical client; interactive real-time design; multi platform graphical rapid prototyping; musical events; object oriented hierarchy; optimisation; platform-independent application; server; visualizing; voice quality; voice quantity; voice signals; voice synthesis; Filter bank; Fluctuations; Informatics; Laboratories; Object oriented modeling; Oscillators; Prototypes; Signal synthesis; Speech; Synthesizers;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 1999. Proceedings of ICECS '99. The 6th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pafos
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5682-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.1999.814470
