EP0059880A3 - Text-to-speech synthesis system - Google Patents
Text-to-speech synthesis systemInfo
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- EP0059880A3 EP0059880A3 EP82101379A EP82101379A EP0059880A3 EP 0059880 A3 EP0059880 A3 EP 0059880A3 EP 82101379 A EP82101379 A EP 82101379A EP 82101379 A EP82101379 A EP 82101379A EP 0059880 A3 EP0059880 A3 EP 0059880A3
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- allophone
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Classifications
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- G—PHYSICS
- G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
- G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
- G10L13/00—Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
- G10L13/08—Text analysis or generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text, e.g. grapheme to phoneme translation, prosody generation or stress or intonation determination
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Abstract
A text-to-speech synthesis system receives digital code
representative of characters from a local or remote source,
and converts those character codes into speech. A set of
allophone rules (16) is contained in a memory and each
incoming character set is matched with the proper character
set to describe the sound of that particular character set. A
microcontroller (17) is dedicated to the comparison proce
dure which provides allophonic code when a match is made.
The allophonic code is provided to a speech producing
system which has a system microcontroller (11) for controll
ing the retrievel, from a read-only memory (12), of digital
signals representative of the individual allophone para
meters. The addresses at which such allophone parameters
are located are directly related to the allophonic code. A
dedicated microcontroller (13) concatenates the digital sig
nals representative of the allophone parameters, including
code indicating stress and intonation patterns for the
allophones. The allophones are divided into a plurality of
frames with one digital position indicating whether the frame
is the last frame in the allophone, in which event an extra
frame is introduced to provide smoothing between
allophones when no stop is present and when the present
allophone is voiced and the subsequent allophone is voiced,
or when the present allophone is unvoiced and the subse
quent allophone is unvoiced. A linear predictive coding
speech synthesizer (14) receives the digital signals and
provides analog signals corresponding thereto to a loud
speaker (15) to produce speechlike sounds with stress and
intonation.
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