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Hanzlíček, Z. and Matoušek, J. and Tihelka, D. : On modelling syllables in text-to-speech synthesis . Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation, Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation, 36, p. 438-445, Technisches Universität, Dresden, 2005.

Abstract

In this paper, an attempt to use syllables as alternative acoustic units to phones in text-to-speech tasks is presented. We proposed, examined and evaluated several options of syllable modelling within the scope of the statistical approach (using HMMs) to the acoustic unit inventory creation. To be able to synthesize an arbitrary text, the inventory has to be extended with triphones, resulting in a hybrid syllable/triphone inventory. First, we did not reflect the phonetic contexts of the syllables, because we supposed that the most of co-articulation is included inside syllables. Next, we also tried to model the context-dependent syllables. However, it is not viable to take each individual phone as a context. Therefore, each context was formed by a group of acoustically similar phones. Several listening tests were performed to rate the quality of the resulting synthetic speech.

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Title: On modelling syllables in text-to-speech synthesis
Author: Hanzlíček, Z. ; Matoušek, J. ; Tihelka, D.
Language: English
Date of publication: 26 Sep 2005
Year: 2005
Type of publication: Papers in journals
Title of journal or book: Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation
Edition: Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation
Series: 36
Page: 438 - 445
ISBN: 0940-6832
ISSN: 0940-6832
Publisher: Technisches Universität
Address: Dresden
Date: 26 Sep 2005 - 28 Sep 2005
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Keywords

syllables, syllabification, text-to-speech, speech synthesis, HMM, hybrid AUI, artificial intelligence

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{HanzlicekZ_2005_Onmodelling,
 author = {Hanzl\'{i}\v{c}ek, Z. and Matou\v{s}ek, J. and Tihelka, D.},
 title = {On modelling syllables in text-to-speech synthesis},
 year = {2005},
 publisher = {Technisches Universit?t},
 journal = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation},
 address = {Dresden},
 pages = {438-445},
 series = {36},
 ISBN = {0940-6832},
 ISSN = {0940-6832},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/HanzlicekZ_2005_Onmodelling},
}