DocumentCode
703517
Title
A fuzzy approach to text-to-speech synthesis
Author
Mumolo, Enzo ; Costanzo, William
Author_Institution
Dipt. di Elettrotec., Elettron. ed Inf., Univ. di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
fYear
1998
fDate
8-11 Sept. 1998
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
In this paper we describe a fuzzy approach for the synthesis of a speech waveform from a phonetic description in Italian language. 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 set theory; speech processing; speech synthesis; Italian language; fuzzy approach; fuzzy rule set; linguistic description; phoneme; phonetic description; speech waveform synthesis; text-to-speech synthesis;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 1998), 9th European
Conference_Location
Rhodes
Print_ISBN
978-960-7620-06-4
Type
conf
Filename
7089988
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