This paper gives an overview of the message generation component of a voice dialogue system. This takes a conceptual representation of the message, and generates a syntactically labelled surface structure using domain independent linguistic rules. At the syllable level, features representing prosodic focus are used to constrain sentence accent placement. The output is used to drive a speech synthesizer at phoneme level.
Cite as: Youd, N.J., Fallside, F. (1989) Driving a speech synthesizer from conceptual input in the context of a voice dialogue system. Proc. First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1989), 1514-1517, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1989-107
@inproceedings{youd89_eurospeech,
author={N. J. Youd and Frank Fallside},
title={{Driving a speech synthesizer from conceptual input in the context of a voice dialogue system}},
year=1989,
booktitle={Proc. First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1989)},
pages={1514--1517},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1989-107}
}