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doi:10.22028/D291-25294
Title: | A mixed inventory structure for German concatenative synthesis |
Author(s): | Portele, Thomas Höfer, Florian Hess, Wolfgang |
Language: | English |
Year of Publication: | 1996 |
SWD key words: | Künstliche Intelligenz |
Free key words: | artificial intelligence |
DDC notations: | 004 Computer science, internet |
Publikation type: | Report |
Abstract: | In speech synthesis by unit concatenation a major point is the definition of the unit inventory. Diphone or demisyllable inventories are widely used but both unit types have their drawbacks. This paper describes a mixed inventory structure which is syllable oriented but does not demand a definite decision about the position of a syllable boundary. In the definition process of the inventory the results of a comprehensive investigation of coarticulatory phenomena at syllable boundaries were used as well as a machine readable pronunciation dictionary. An evaluation comparing the mixed inventory with a demisyllable and a diphone inventory confirms that speech generated with the mixed inventory is superior regarding general acceptance. A segmental intelligibility test shows the high intelligibility of the synthetic speech. |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-53403 hdl:20.500.11880/25350 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-25294 |
Series name: | Vm-Report / Verbmobil, Verbundvorhaben, [Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz] |
Series volume: | 149 |
Date of registration: | 12-Jun-2013 |
Faculty: | SE - Sonstige Einrichtungen |
Department: | SE - DFKI Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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