A set of rules is proposed for the automatic synthesis of natural-sounding intonation as part of speech synthesis in Dutch from unrestricted text. Results of a formal perceptual evaluation show that the synthetic intonation is judged to be as natural as human intonation for isolated utterances; for texts, additional provisions are required to model contributions of text structure. It is suggested that the regularities expressed by the rules may apply to other languages as well.
Cite as: Terken, J.M.B., Collier, R. (1989) Automatic synthesis of natural-sounding intonation for text-to-speech conversion in dutch. Proc. First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1989), 1357-1359, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1989-101
@inproceedings{terken89_eurospeech,
author={Jacques M. B. Terken and René Collier},
title={{Automatic synthesis of natural-sounding intonation for text-to-speech conversion in dutch}},
year=1989,
booktitle={Proc. First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1989)},
pages={1357--1359},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1989-101}
}