Assimilation of schwa into surrounding sonorant consonants is a vital feature of natural Danish speech. It varies with speaking rate and speaking style and is more likely to occur in some phonological contexts than in others. This presents some problems for the implementation of the process into a Danish text-to-speech system.
Cite as: Jensen, C. (2001) Schwa-assimilation in danish synthetic speech. Proc. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001), 341-344, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.2001-106
@inproceedings{jensen01_eurospeech,
author={Christian Jensen},
title={{Schwa-assimilation in danish synthetic speech}},
year=2001,
booktitle={Proc. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001)},
pages={341--344},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.2001-106}
}