MeteoSPRUCE is a database of 2000 words re-lating to weather forecasting. While such a database is clearly not large enough to be definitive, its usability can be greatly extended by excising syllables from polysyllabic words in its inventory and recombining them to form new words [1], [2], [3]. The authors believe that it provides sufficient data to start to enable conclusions to be drawn as to how syllables should be modified for concatenation in contexts other than those in which they were recorded. A classification scheme for syllables, based on the class of their initial and final segments, has been defined and used to determine a set of rules for making modifications to syllables so that when concatenated the joins are perceptually not noticeable.
Cite as: Lewis, E., Tatham, M. (1999) Word and syllable concatenation in text-to-speech synthesis. Proc. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1999), 615-618, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1999-158
@inproceedings{lewis99_eurospeech,
author={Eric Lewis and Mark Tatham},
title={{Word and syllable concatenation in text-to-speech synthesis}},
year=1999,
booktitle={Proc. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1999)},
pages={615--618},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1999-158}
}