Law Ka Man = 利用子音節的粤語文語轉換系統 / 羅家文. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. / Text in English; abstracts in English and Chinese. / Law Ka Man = Li yong zi yin jie de Yue yu wen yu zhuan huan xi tong / Luo Jiawen. / Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Text analysis --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2 --- Prosody prediction --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Speech generation --- p.3 / Chapter 1.4 --- The trend of TTS technology --- p.5 / Chapter 1.5 --- TTS systems for different languages --- p.6 / Chapter 1.6 --- Objectives of the thesis --- p.8 / Chapter 1.7 --- Thesis outline --- p.8 / References --- p.10 / Chapter 2. --- BACKGROUND --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1 --- Cantonese phonology --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Cantonese TTS - a baseline system --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3 --- Time-Domain Prrch-Synchronous-OverLap-Add --- p.17 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- "From, speech signal to short-time analysis signals" --- p.18 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- From short-time analysis signals to short-time synthesis signals --- p.19 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- From short-time synthesis signals to synthetic speech --- p.20 / Chapter 2.4 --- Time-scale and Pitch-scale modifications --- p.20 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Voiced speech --- p.20 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Unvoiced speech --- p.21 / Chapter 2.5 --- Summary --- p.22 / References --- p.23 / Chapter 3. --- SUB-SYLLABLE BASED TTS SYSTEM --- p.24 / Chapter 3.1 --- Motivations --- p.24 / Chapter 3.2 --- Choices of synthesis units --- p.27 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Sub-syllable unit --- p.29 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- "Diphones, demi-syllables and sub-syllable units" --- p.31 / Chapter 3.3 --- Proposed TTS system --- p.32 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Text analysis module --- p.33 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Synthesis module --- p.36 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Prosody module --- p.37 / Chapter 3.4 --- Summary --- p.38 / References --- p.39 / Chapter 4. --- ACOUSTIC INVENTORY --- p.40 / Chapter 4.1 --- The full set of Cantonese sub-syllable units --- p.40 / Chapter 4.2 --- A reduced set of sub-syllable units --- p.42 / Chapter 4.3 --- Corpus design --- p.44 / Chapter 4.4 --- Recording --- p.46 / Chapter 4.5 --- Post-processing of speech data --- p.47 / Chapter 4.6 --- Summary --- p.51 / References --- p.51 / Chapter 5. --- CONCATENATION TECHNIQUES --- p.52 / Chapter 5.1 --- Concatenation of sub-syllable units --- p.52 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Concatenation of plosives and affricates --- p.54 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Concatenation of fricatives --- p.55 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- "Concatenation of vowels, semi-vowels and nasals" --- p.55 / Chapter 5.1.4 --- Spectral distance measure --- p.57 / Chapter 5.2 --- Waveform concatenation method --- p.58 / Chapter 5.3 --- Selected examples of waveform concatenation --- p.59 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- I-I concatenation --- p.60 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- F-F concatenation --- p.66 / Chapter 5.4 --- Summary --- p.71 / References --- p.72 / Chapter 6. --- PERFORMANCE EVALUATION --- p.73 / Chapter 6.1 --- Listening test --- p.73 / Chapter 6.2 --- Test results： --- p.74 / Chapter 6.3 --- Discussions --- p.75 / References --- p.78 / Chapter 7. --- CONCLUSIONS & FUTURE WORKS --- p.79 / Chapter 7.1 --- Conclusions --- p.79 / Chapter 7.2 --- Suggested future work --- p.81 / APPENDIX 1 SYLLABLE DURATION --- p.82 / APPENDIX 2 PERCEPTUAL TEST PARAGRAPHS --- p.86
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_323495 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Contributors | Law, Ka Man., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Electronic Engineering. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, x, 88 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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