Improvements in the voice quality of DECtalk®

Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 55-58

  Bickley, Corine ^a   Bruckert, Edward ^a  

^a Fonix Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; SPEECH PRODUCTION; VOICE QUALITY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84966348865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSS.2002.1224372     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. Stevens, K.N. and C.A. Bickley, "Constraints among parameters simplify control of Klatt formant synthesizer", J. Phonetics, 19:161-174, 1991.
2. Bickley, C.A., K.N. Stevens and D.R. Williams, "A Framework for Synthesis of Segments Based on Pseudoarticulatory Parameters", in J.P.H. van Santen, R.W. Sproat, J.P. Olive, and J. Hirschberg (Eds.) Progress in Speech Synthesis, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997.
3. Hanson, H.M. and K.N. Stevens, "A quasi-articulatory approach to controlling acoustic source parameters in a Klatt-type formant synthesizer using HLsyn", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., to be published in 2002.
4. Bruckert, E. "Advances in Formant Synthesis", presented at SpeechTEK 2001.
5. Bickley, C. and E. Bruckert "Advances in rule-based formant synthesis: Voices that you can understand everywhere", presented at AVIOS 2002.
6. Pisoni, D.B., "Perception of Synthetic Speech", in J.P.H. van Santen, R.W. Sproat, J.P. Olive, and J. Hirschberg (Eds.)Progress in Speech Synthesis, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997.
7. DECtalk white paper, "DECtalk is the most intelligible TTS system in noise", presented at SpeechTEK 2001.