A TTS SYSTEM FOR THE GREEK LANGUAGE-BASED ON CONCATENATION OF FORMANTCODED SEGMENTS

Authors
YIOURGALIS N KOKKINAKIS G
Citation
N. Yiourgalis et G. Kokkinakis, A TTS SYSTEM FOR THE GREEK LANGUAGE-BASED ON CONCATENATION OF FORMANTCODED SEGMENTS, Speech communication, 19(1), 1996, pp. 21-38
Citations number
45
Categorie Soggetti
Communication,"Language & Linguistics
Journal title
Speech communication → ACNP
ISSN journal
01676393
Volume
19
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
21 - 38
Database
ISI
SICI code
0167-6393(1996)19:1<21:ATSFTG>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
This paper presents an operational Pitch Synchronously Excited (PSE) F ormant based TtS system for the Greek language, developed at WCL. The system uses a thesaurus comprised of 140 speech segments including the Consonant (C), Vowel (V), CV and CCV type. Particular attention is pa id to the concatenation scheme applied to these segments, as well as o n their context-sensitive duration and the coarticulation rules writte n for the Greek language. The formant synthesizer runs on a DSP32C boa rd.