This paper describes the design and generation of the acoustic database for a Spanish text-to speech synthesizer, developed jointly by AT&T BELL LABORATORIES and TELEFONICA I+D, based on the concatenation of LPC coded units. These units can be referred to as "paraphones" since they can be subphones, diphones, triphones or even polyphones of a greater order. For our work, we first established a list of the allophones required; then constructed a dictionary of paraphones; devised a list of sentences containing all this paraphones; recorded all these sentences and finally segmented from them the units for our database.
Cite as: Larumbe, A.M. (1990) Design and generation of the acoustic database of a text-to-speech synthesizer for Spanish. Proc. First ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 1), 31-34
@inproceedings{larumbe90_ssw,
author={Alejandro Macarron Larumbe},
title={{Design and generation of the acoustic database of a text-to-speech synthesizer for Spanish}},
year=1990,
booktitle={Proc. First ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 1)},
pages={31--34}
}