STUDY OF VOWEL VARIATIONS FOR A MANDARIN SPEECH SYNTHESIZER

Chilin Shih

STUDY OF VOWEL VARIATIONS FOR A MANDARIN SPEECH SYNTHESIZER

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This paper reports the results of an acoustic study of Mandarin Chinese that was carried out for the AT&T Mandarin text-to-speech system. We present the optimal classification of vowels for the purpose of the synthesizer, and discuss some coarticulation effects and their implications for the collection of acoustic inventory elements. We are able to achieve excellent speech quality with a diphone-based concatenative system.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	1807-1810
Number of pages	4
State	Published - 1995
Externally published	Yes
Event	4th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1995 - Madrid, Spain Duration: Sep 18 1995 → Sep 21 1995

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Conference	4th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1995
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Madrid
Period	9/18/95 → 9/21/95

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Computer Science Applications
Software
Linguistics and Language
Communication

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