Female voices in speech synthesis  

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Karlsson, R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Phonetics vol. 19 no. 1 (Jan. 1991), page 111 - 120.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JOP/19 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The intention of this paper is to give a short overview of the history and the present stage of synthesis of female voices. The earlier attempts at synthesizing a female voice consisted mainly of either transforming a male synthetic voice or copying an utterance by a female speaker. These attempts were often not completely successful. This was mainly due to the synthesizers not being complex enough; often only the first three or four formants, fundamental frequency and overall amplitude could be varied. Some of these previous attempts are discussed briefly in the paper. The more versatile synthesizers available today in combination with new analysis tools have given us the opportunity to synthesize better voices. Data on vowel formants, fundamental frequency and voice source variations for female voices are collected. The differences between female and male speech is discussed briefly in the paper. These data on the female voice are used in the new synthesizers to produce female-sounding synthetic speech. Our current work in this area consists both of copying a female utterance and writing female pronounciation rules for a text-to-speech system.

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