| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L53250/01 |
| Title: |
A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR CONCATENATIVE SYNTHESIS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Isard, Mr S |
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| Department: |
Centre for Speech Technology Research |
| Organisation: |
University of Edinburgh |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 1997 |
Ends: |
31 December 2000 |
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306,599
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Human Communication in ICT |
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We are proposing an approach to concatenative speech synthesis whose benefits will be a) better sounding speech and b) less work in building synthesisers for new voices and, even more important, new accents. The three key stages of the work are:1. A synthesiser incorporating a large database of alternative speech units, classified according to both phonological and prosodic properties (as in Hunt and Black (1996)).2. The classification of speech sounds in terms of the words they occur in as in Wells' [1982] keyword phonology and the consequent avoidance of the need for narrow phonetic transcription, either in the text-to-speech lexicon or spelling-to-sound rules.3. An architecture in which modules that traditionally take hard and fast decisions, such as pitch and duration assignment, return a selection of alternatives with associated scores, or costs, that can be combined with the costs of alternative slections of units to arrive at a global optimum for a given utterance.
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