Abstract / Description of output
We describe a concatenative speech synthesiser for British English which uses the HADIFIX inventory structure originally developed for German by Portele. An inventory of non-uniform units was investigated with the aim of improving segmental quality compared to diphones. A combination of soft (diphone) and hard concatenation was used, which allowed a dramatic reduction in inventory size. We also present a unit selection algorithm which selects an optimum sequence of units from this inventory for a given phoneme sequence. The work described is part of the concept-to-speech synthesiser for the language and speech project Verbmobil which is funded by the German Ministry of Science (BMBF).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proc. Eurospeech 97 |
| Subtitle of host publication | 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology |
| Publisher | International Speech Communication Association |
| Pages | 569-572 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Print) | ISSN: 1990-9772 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 1997 |