Abstract
This chapter introduces Mandarin Text-To-Speech (MTTS) synthesis. Beginning with a brief review on the development history of MTTS and attributes of MTTS, three main constituents of the technology are presented: 1) Text processing: word segmentation, disambiguation of polyphones, and analysis of rhythm structure; 2) prosodic processing: features of Mandarin prosody, and prosody prediction, and; 3) speech synthesis: parametric synthesis and concatenative synthesis. Finally perspectives and applications for MTTS synthesis are discussed in the final sections.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Advances in Chinese Spoken Language Processing |
Publisher | World Scientific Publishing Co. |
Pages | 99-124 |
Number of pages | 26 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789812772961 |
ISBN (Print) | 9812569049, 9789812569042 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2006 |