A Rule-Based Italian Text-to-Speech System

An Italian text-to-speech system based on the INFOVOX architecture will be described- With respect to earlier versions of the system, the complete set of Italian vowels and diphthongs was taken into consideration. A set of specific rules for the assignment of word stress, entirely based on statistical considerations, as well as a complete set of grapheme-to-phoneme rules were implemented. Appropriate parameter definitions for the realisation of Italian phonemes were formulated and, on the basis of preliminary results on the study of Italian prosodic structure, appropriate phonetic changes were introduced. Finally, the results of perceptual experiments which were carried out in order to evaluate the system will be described.

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Contributo in atti di convegno
Author or Creator: 
Barber S.
Carlson R.
Cosi P.
Di Benedetto M.G.
Granstrom B.
Vagges K.
Publisher: 
ISCA, International speech communication association, Baixas, FRA
Source: 
EUROSPEECH-89, European Conference on Speech Technology, pp. 2517–2520, Paris, France, 27-29 September 1989
Date: 
1989
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/241935
http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/archive_papers/eurospeech_1989/e89_2517.pdf
Language: 
Eng
ISTC Author: 
Ritratto di Piero Cosi
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