Concatenative synthesis - University of Birmingham
Concatenative synthesis - University of Birmingham
Concatenative synthesis - University of Birmingham
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THE UNIVERSITY<br />
OF BIRMINGHAM<br />
Text-to-Phoneme Conversion<br />
SCHOOL OF<br />
ELECTRONIC &<br />
ELECTRICAL<br />
ENGINEERING<br />
! Sequence <strong>of</strong> phonetic-segments typically obtained<br />
by:<br />
– looking up individual words in a pronunciation<br />
dictionary (<strong>of</strong>ten referred to as the exceptions<br />
dictionary for historical reasons) or<br />
– applying letter-to-sound rules<br />
Digital Systems<br />
&<br />
Vision Processing<br />
! Finally, need a method to convert the sequence <strong>of</strong><br />
phonetic segments into an acoustic signal.<br />
Inaugural Lecture<br />
22-Nov-00<br />
SLIDE 5
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