This paper describes a radical corpus-based approach to speech synthesis. No signal manipulation is performed and the synthesis becomes a mere concatenation. The feasibility of this approach is evaluated regarding corpus selection constraints and realization of different prominence patterns. A "traditional" concatenative system serves as a baseline. The results indicate that the size of the corpus must be rather large in order to obtain satisfying and reliable results for unlimited text-to-speech conversion.
Cite as: Portele, T. (1998) JUst CONcatenation - A Corpus-based Approach and its Limits. Proc. 3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 3), 153-158
@inproceedings{portele98_ssw,
author={Thomas Portele},
title={{JUst CONcatenation - A Corpus-based Approach and its Limits}},
year=1998,
booktitle={Proc. 3rd ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW 3)},
pages={153--158}
}