Prosody adaptation in text-to-speech synthesis

• Main Authors: Poh, Teng Chuan, Foo, Say Wei, Yeo, Huat Chye
• Other Authors: International Conference on Communication Systems (2000 : New Orleans, US)
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electronic systems::Signal processing
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92220; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6806; http://www.eng.nus.edu.sg/EResnews/0110/rd/rd_4.html
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A prosody adaptation text-to-speech system based on concatenation of spoken English words is presented in this paper. To make the resulting sentences sound natural, modifications are made to the prosody of the speech units using the Time-Domain-Pitch-Synchronous- Overlap-Add method. A prosody genera...