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Law Ka Man = 利用子音節的粤語文語轉換系統 / 羅家文., Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001., Includes bibliographical references., Text in English; abstracts in English and Chinese., Law Ka Man = Li yong zi yin jie de Yue yu wen yu zhuan huan xi tong / Luo Jiawen., Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1, Chapter 1.1 --- Text analysis --- p.2, Chapter 1.2 --- Prosody prediction --- p.3, Chapter 1.3 --- Speech generation --- p.3, Chapter 1.4 --- The trend of TTS technology --- p.5, Chapter 1.5 --- TTS systems for different languages --- p.6, Chapter 1.6 --- Objectives of the thesis --- p.8, Chapter 1.7 --- Thesis outline --- p.8, References --- p.10, Chapter 2. --- BACKGROUND --- p.11, Chapter 2.1 --- Cantonese phonology --- p.11, Chapter 2.2 --- Cantonese TTS - a baseline system --- p.16, Chapter 2.3 --- Time-Domain Prrch-Synchronous-OverLap-Add --- p.17, Chapter 2.3.1 --- "From, speech signal to short-time analysis signals" --- p.18, Chapter 2.3.2 --- From short-time analysis signals to short-time synthesis signals --- p.19, Chapter 2.3.3 --- From short-time synthesis signals to synthetic speech --- p.20, Chapter 2.4 --- Time-scale and Pitch-scale modifications --- p.20, Chapter 2.4.1 --- Voiced speech --- p.20, Chapter 2.4.2 --- Unvoiced speech --- p.21, Chapter 2.5 --- Summary --- p.22, References --- p.23, Chapter 3. --- SUB-SYLLABLE BASED TTS SYSTEM --- p.24, Chapter 3.1 --- Motivations --- p.24, Chapter 3.2 --- Choices of synthesis units --- p.27, Chapter 3.2.1 --- Sub-syllable unit --- p.29, Chapter 3.2.2 --- "Diphones, demi-syllables and sub-syllable units" --- p.31, Chapter 3.3 --- Proposed TTS system --- p.32, Chapter 3.3.1 --- Text analysis module --- p.33, Chapter 3.3.2 --- Synthesis module --- p.36, Chapter 3.3.3 --- Prosody module --- p.37, Chapter 3.4 --- Summary --- p.38, References --- p.39, Chapter 4. --- ACOUSTIC INVENTORY --- p.40, Chapter 4.1 --- The full set of Cantonese sub-syllable units --- p.40, Chapter 4.2 --- A reduced set of sub-syllable units --- p.42, Chapter 4.3 --- Corpus design --- p.44, Chapter 4.4 --- Recording --- p.46, Chapter 4.5 --- Post-processing of speech data --- p.47, Chapter 4.6 --- Summary --- p.51, References --- p.51, Chapter 5. --- CONCATENATION TECHNIQUES --- p.52, Chapter 5.1 --- Concatenation of sub-syllable units --- p.52, Chapter 5.1.1 --- Concatenation of plosives and affricates --- p.54, Chapter 5.1.2 --- Concatenation of fricatives --- p.55, Chapter 5.1.3 --- "Concatenation of vowels, semi-vowels and nasals" --- p.55, Chapter 5.1.4 --- Spectral distance measure --- p.57, Chapter 5.2 --- Waveform concatenation method --- p.58, Chapter 5.3 --- Selected examples of waveform concatenation --- p.59, Chapter 5.3.1 --- I-I concatenation --- p.60, Chapter 5.3.2 --- F-F concatenation --- p.66, Chapter 5.4 --- Summary --- p.71, References --- p.72, Chapter 6. --- PERFORMANCE EVALUATION --- p.73, Chapter 6.1 --- Listening test --- p.73, Chapter 6.2 --- Test results： --- p.74, Chapter 6.3 --- Discussions --- p.75, References --- p.78, Chapter 7. --- CONCLUSIONS & FUTURE WORKS --- p.79, Chapter 7.1 --- Conclusions --- p.79, Chapter 7.2 --- Suggested future work --- p.81, APPENDIX 1 SYLLABLE DURATION --- p.82, APPENDIX 2 PERCEPTUAL TEST PARAGRAPHS --- p.86, http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5890790, Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)