In this paper we present a computer program PROSO a linguistic rule compiler which applies a number of prosodic rules inserting appropriate markers to any text inputted, on the basis of phonological rules and of syntactic structure, this one computed separately by an RTN parser(see Delmonte & Dolci, 1989) and made visible to PROSO only at a certain structural level, though. The output of this program can then be passed on to a system like VOXPC, the text-to-speech module commercialized by Olivetti, which allows the user to provide explicit phonetic and prosodic information in order to modify the internal coding procedures. VOXPC is a system completely lacking in linguistic knowledge apart from the well-known distinction between content and function words: the quality of the system is very poor both at word level and at sentence and text level.
Cite as: Delmonte, R., Dolci, R. (1991) Computing linguistic knowledge for text-to-speech systems with PROSO. Proc. 2nd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1991), 1291-1294, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1991-296
@inproceedings{delmonte91_eurospeech,
author={Rodolfo Delmonte and Roberto Dolci},
title={{Computing linguistic knowledge for text-to-speech systems with PROSO}},
year=1991,
booktitle={Proc. 2nd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1991)},
pages={1291--1294},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1991-296}
}