A new speech synthesis algorithm based on the LMA filter in Chinese text-to-speech systern is introduced. Using this method, the system can not only generate speech with higher quality, but also have a more powerful ...A new speech synthesis algorithm based on the LMA filter in Chinese text-to-speech systern is introduced. Using this method, the system can not only generate speech with higher quality, but also have a more powerful ability to modify the prosodic parameters, which ensures a far more natural and intelligible synthesized speech than ever before. First, the fundamental principles of the LMA filter and the construction of the synthesizer are presented, then, how to modify the acoustic parameters with this synthesizer is described; finally, the quantitative evaluation of the system's performance is shown while compared with a relatively successful PSOLA synthesizer KDTALK_1展开更多
A method to synthesize formant targeted sounds based on speech production model and Reflection-Type Line Analog (RTLA) articulatory synthesis model is presented. The synthesis model is implemented with scattering pro...A method to synthesize formant targeted sounds based on speech production model and Reflection-Type Line Analog (RTLA) articulatory synthesis model is presented. The synthesis model is implemented with scattering process derived from a RTLA of vocal tract system according to the acoustic mechanism of speech production. The vocal-tract area function which controls the synthesis model is derived from the first three formant trajectories by using the inverse solution of speech production. The proposed method not only gives good naturalness and dynamic smoothness, but also is capable to control or modify speech timbres easily and flexibly. Further and mores it needs less number of control parameters and very low update rate of the parameters.展开更多
文摘A new speech synthesis algorithm based on the LMA filter in Chinese text-to-speech systern is introduced. Using this method, the system can not only generate speech with higher quality, but also have a more powerful ability to modify the prosodic parameters, which ensures a far more natural and intelligible synthesized speech than ever before. First, the fundamental principles of the LMA filter and the construction of the synthesizer are presented, then, how to modify the acoustic parameters with this synthesizer is described; finally, the quantitative evaluation of the system's performance is shown while compared with a relatively successful PSOLA synthesizer KDTALK_1
基金This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China !(69972046)the NSF of Zhejiang Province! (698076)
文摘A method to synthesize formant targeted sounds based on speech production model and Reflection-Type Line Analog (RTLA) articulatory synthesis model is presented. The synthesis model is implemented with scattering process derived from a RTLA of vocal tract system according to the acoustic mechanism of speech production. The vocal-tract area function which controls the synthesis model is derived from the first three formant trajectories by using the inverse solution of speech production. The proposed method not only gives good naturalness and dynamic smoothness, but also is capable to control or modify speech timbres easily and flexibly. Further and mores it needs less number of control parameters and very low update rate of the parameters.