Title :
The control of juncture and prosody in Chinese TTS system
Author :
Min, Chu ; Shinan, Lu ; Hongyan, Si ; Lin, He ; Dinghua, Guan
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Acoust., Acad. Sinica, Beijing, China
Abstract :
In a Chinese text to speech (TTS) system that is based on syllabic waveform concatenation, proper control of the juncture between syllables and prosody of sentences is essential to improving the naturalness of the synthetic speech. A perception experiment on formant transitions between syllables and a prosody model designed for Chinese TTS system are presented
Keywords :
natural languages; speech intelligibility; speech synthesis; Chinese TTS system; formant transitions; juncture control; perception experiment; prosody control; prosody model; syllabic waveform concatenation; synthetic speech; text to speech system; Acoustic waves; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Electronic mail; Helium; Loudspeakers; Natural languages; Random sequences; Speech synthesis; Virtual colonoscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing, 1996., 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2912-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSIGP.1996.567365