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Concatenative synthesis - University of Birmingham

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THE UNIVERSITY<br />

OF BIRMINGHAM<br />

Sub-Word Concatenation<br />

SCHOOL OF<br />

ELECTRONIC &<br />

ELECTRICAL<br />

ENGINEERING<br />

! Sub-word concatenation overcomes difficulties<br />

with adding new words to the application<br />

vocabulary<br />

! BUT, other problems are exacerbated.<br />

! In particular, coarticulation and pitch continuity<br />

problems now occur within, as well as between,<br />

words<br />

Digital Systems<br />

&<br />

Vision Processing<br />

Inaugural Lecture<br />

22-Nov-00<br />

SLIDE 17<br />

! Necessary to use several examples <strong>of</strong> each<br />

phone (corresponding roughly to different<br />

allophones).

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