This paper describes the back-end of a new, flexible, high-quality TTS system. Preliminary results have demonstrated a highly natural and intelligible output. Although the system follows some standard methodologies, such as concatenation, we have introduced a number of novel features and a combination of techniques that make our system unique. We will describe in detail many of the design decisions and compare them with other known systems. A demonstration of the speech quality with implanted prosody is available in waveform file ([WAVE stltts1.wav and stltts2.wav]) on the conference CD.
Cite as: Pearson, S., Kibre, N., Niedzielski, N. (1998) A synthesis method based on concatenation of demisyllables and a residual excited vocal tract model. Proc. 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998), paper 0648, doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.1998-49
@inproceedings{pearson98_icslp,
author={Steve Pearson and Nick Kibre and Nancy Niedzielski},
title={{A synthesis method based on concatenation of demisyllables and a residual excited vocal tract model}},
year=1998,
booktitle={Proc. 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998)},
pages={paper 0648},
doi={10.21437/ICSLP.1998-49}
}