Cantonese text-to-speech synethesis using sub-syllable units.

• Other Authors: Law, Ka Man.
• Format: Others
• Language: English; Chinese
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Speech synthesis; Speech processing systems; Cantonese dialects > Data processing
• Online Access: http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5890790; http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-323495

Law Ka Man = 利用子音節的粤語文語轉換系統 / 羅家文. === Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. === Includes bibliographical references. === Text in English; abstracts in English and Chinese. === Law Ka Man = Li yong zi yin jie de Yue yu wen yu zhuan huan xi tong / Luo Jiawen. === Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 === Chapter 1.1 --- Text analysis --- p.2 === Chapter 1.2 --- Prosody prediction --- p.3 === Chapter 1.3 --- Speech generation --- p.3 === Chapter 1.4 --- The trend of TTS technology --- p.5 === Chapter 1.5 --- TTS systems for different languages --- p.6 === Chapter 1.6 --- Objectives of the thesis --- p.8 === Chapter 1.7 --- Thesis outline --- p.8 === References --- p.10 === Chapter 2. --- BACKGROUND --- p.11 === Chapter 2.1 --- Cantonese phonology --- p.11 === Chapter 2.2 --- Cantonese TTS - a baseline system --- p.16 === Chapter 2.3 --- Time-Domain Prrch-Synchronous-OverLap-Add --- p.17 === Chapter 2.3.1 --- "From, speech signal to short-time analysis signals" --- p.18 === Chapter 2.3.2 --- From short-time analysis signals to short-time synthesis signals --- p.19 === Chapter 2.3.3 --- From short-time synthesis signals to synthetic speech --- p.20 === Chapter 2.4 --- Time-scale and Pitch-scale modifications --- p.20 === Chapter 2.4.1 --- Voiced speech --- p.20 === Chapter 2.4.2 --- Unvoiced speech --- p.21 === Chapter 2.5 --- Summary --- p.22 === References --- p.23 === Chapter 3. --- SUB-SYLLABLE BASED TTS SYSTEM --- p.24 === Chapter 3.1 --- Motivations --- p.24 === Chapter 3.2 --- Choices of synthesis units --- p.27 === Chapter 3.2.1 --- Sub-syllable unit --- p.29 === Chapter 3.2.2 --- "Diphones, demi-syllables and sub-syllable units" --- p.31 === Chapter 3.3 --- Proposed TTS system --- p.32 === Chapter 3.3.1 --- Text analysis module --- p.33 === Chapter 3.3.2 --- Synthesis module --- p.36 === Chapter 3.3.3 --- Prosody module --- p.37 === Chapter 3.4 --- Summary --- p.38 === References --- p.39 === Chapter 4. --- ACOUSTIC INVENTORY --- p.40 === Chapter 4.1 --- The full set of Cantonese sub-syllable units --- p.40 === Chapter 4.2 --- A reduced set of sub-syllable units --- p.42 === Chapter 4.3 --- Corpus design --- p.44 === Chapter 4.4 --- Recording --- p.46 === Chapter 4.5 --- Post-processing of speech data --- p.47 === Chapter 4.6 --- Summary --- p.51 === References --- p.51 === Chapter 5. --- CONCATENATION TECHNIQUES --- p.52 === Chapter 5.1 --- Concatenation of sub-syllable units --- p.52 === Chapter 5.1.1 --- Concatenation of plosives and affricates --- p.54 === Chapter 5.1.2 --- Concatenation of fricatives --- p.55 === Chapter 5.1.3 --- "Concatenation of vowels, semi-vowels and nasals" --- p.55 === Chapter 5.1.4 --- Spectral distance measure --- p.57 === Chapter 5.2 --- Waveform concatenation method --- p.58 === Chapter 5.3 --- Selected examples of waveform concatenation --- p.59 === Chapter 5.3.1 --- I-I concatenation --- p.60 === Chapter 5.3.2 --- F-F concatenation --- p.66 === Chapter 5.4 --- Summary --- p.71 === References --- p.72 === Chapter 6. --- PERFORMANCE EVALUATION --- p.73 === Chapter 6.1 --- Listening test --- p.73 === Chapter 6.2 --- Test results： --- p.74 === Chapter 6.3 --- Discussions --- p.75 === References --- p.78 === Chapter 7. --- CONCLUSIONS & FUTURE WORKS --- p.79 === Chapter 7.1 --- Conclusions --- p.79 === Chapter 7.2 --- Suggested future work --- p.81 === APPENDIX 1 SYLLABLE DURATION --- p.82 === APPENDIX 2 PERCEPTUAL TEST PARAGRAPHS --- p.86