Fung Tien Ying. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-128). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.1 / Acknowledgement --- p.1 / List of Figures --- p.7 / List of Tables --- p.11 / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.14 / Chapter 1.1 --- General Trends on Speech Generation --- p.15 / Chapter 1.2 --- Domain-Optimized Speech Generation in Chinese --- p.16 / Chapter 1.3 --- Thesis Organization --- p.17 / Chapter 2 --- Background --- p.19 / Chapter 2.1 --- Linguistic and Phonological Properties of Chinese --- p.19 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Articulation --- p.20 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Tones --- p.21 / Chapter 2.2 --- Previous Development in Speech Generation --- p.22 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Articulatory Synthesis --- p.23 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Formant Synthesis --- p.24 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Concatenative Synthesis --- p.25 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Existing Systems --- p.31 / Chapter 2.3 --- Our Speech Generation Approach --- p.35 / Chapter 3 --- Corpus-based Syllable Concatenation: A Feasibility Test --- p.37 / Chapter 3.1 --- Capturing Syllable Coarticulation with Distinctive Features --- p.39 / Chapter 3.2 --- Creating a Domain-Optimized Wavebank --- p.41 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Generate-and-Filter --- p.44 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Waveform Segmentation --- p.47 / Chapter 3.3 --- The Use of Multi-Syllable Units --- p.49 / Chapter 3.4 --- Unit Selection for Concatenative Speech Output --- p.50 / Chapter 3.5 --- A Listening Test --- p.51 / Chapter 3.6 --- Chapter Summary --- p.52 / Chapter 4 --- Scalability and Portability to the Stocks Domain --- p.55 / Chapter 4.1 --- Complexity of the ISIS Responses --- p.56 / Chapter 4.2 --- XML for input semantic and grammar representation --- p.60 / Chapter 4.3 --- Tree-Based Filtering Algorithm --- p.63 / Chapter 4.4 --- Energy Normalization --- p.67 / Chapter 4.5 --- Chapter Summary --- p.69 / Chapter 5 --- Investigation in Tonal Contexts --- p.71 / Chapter 5.1 --- The Nature of Tones --- p.74 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Human Perception of Tones --- p.75 / Chapter 5.2 --- Relative Importance of Left and Right Tonal Context --- p.77 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Tonal Contexts in the Date-Time Subgrammar --- p.77 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Tonal Contexts in the Numeric Subgrammar --- p.82 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Conclusion regarding the Relative Importance of Left versus Right Tonal Contexts --- p.86 / Chapter 5.3 --- Selection Scheme for Tonal Variants --- p.86 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Listening Test for our Tone Backoff Scheme --- p.90 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Error Analysis --- p.92 / Chapter 5.4 --- Chapter Summary --- p.94 / Chapter 6 --- Summary and Future Work --- p.95 / Chapter 6.1 --- Contributions --- p.97 / Chapter 6.2 --- Future Directions --- p.98 / Chapter A --- Listening Test Questionnaire for FOREX Response Genera- tion --- p.100 / Chapter B --- Major Response Types For ISIS --- p.102 / Chapter C --- Recording Corpus for Tone Investigation in Date-time Sub- grammar --- p.105 / Chapter D --- Statistical Test for Left Tonal Context --- p.109 / Chapter E --- Statistical Test for Right Tonal Context --- p.112 / Chapter F --- Listening Test Questionnaire for Backoff Unit Selection Scheme --- p.115 / Chapter G --- Statistical Test for the Backoff Unit Selection Scheme --- p.117 / Chapter H --- Statistical Test for the Backoff Unit Selection Scheme --- p.118 / Bibliography --- p.119
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_323505 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Contributors | Fung, Tien Ying., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, 128 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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