DocumentCode
2993748
Title
GRAPHON-the Vienna speech systhesis system for arbitrary German text
Author
Dorffner, Georg ; Kommenda, Markus ; Kubin, Gernot
Author_Institution
Technische Universität Wien, Wien, Austria
Volume
10
fYear
1985
fDate
31138
Firstpage
744
Lastpage
747
Abstract
The text-to-speech system GRAPHON synthesizes speech from German text in two steps: first, a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion program derives the correct pronunciation by applying a set of about 600 rules. A currently developed morphological analysis component is expected to yield proper decomposition and pronunciation of compounds, assignment of word stress and extraction of syntax related information required to generate sentence intonation. The second step is phonetic-acoustic synthesis. A simplified articulatory model is used to control a refined digital vocal tract synthesizer. Operation of the whole text-to-speech system should be real-time.
Keywords
Control system synthesis; Data mining; Dictionaries; Digital control; Information analysis; Microcomputers; Natural languages; Speech synthesis; Stress; Synthesizers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE International Conference on ICASSP '85.
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICASSP.1985.1168326
Filename
1168326
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