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Speech synthesis by dyads and automatic intonation processing

Authors :
D. Larreur
F. Emerard
Source :
ICASSP
Publication Year :
2005
Publisher :
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2005.

Abstract

Speech Synthesis by dyads concatenation produces an intelligible speech, but the lack of prosodic features like rythm and intonation gives the speech an unnatural and unpleasant sound. Having regard to the short-dated applied objectives, It's proving necessary to find a simple set of intonation patterns without taking the complexity of syntactic sentence structuration and the many derived rules into account. Intrinsic characteristics of each dyad are stored and a very simplified grammar is used to surimpose them automatically a pitch pattern, function of the following parameters: Type of sentences, End of each kind of syntagms, words boundaries, and words position inside a sentence.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
ICASSP '76. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........899d9c02983cf78ea3c889221c691d3b
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/icassp.1976.1170150