One of the interesting topics on multimedia domain is concerned with empowering computer in order to speech production. Speech synthesis is granting human abilities to the computer for speech production. Data-based approach and process-based approach are the two main approaches on speech synthesis. Each approach has its varied challenges. Unit-selection speech synthesis and statistical parametr...

the aim of this paper is to report on an attempt to design and implement an intelligent system capable of generating the correct part of speech for a given sentence while the sentence is totally new to the system and not stored in any database available to the system. it follows the same steps a normal individual does to provide the correct parts of speech using a natural language processor. it...

BACKGROUND contextual cues intrinsic to speech stimuli can have an influence on speech intelligibility measurements; however, the influence of cues that depend on the acoustic signal, such as speech rate and vocal loudness, need further investigation. AIM to examine whether possible reductions in the articulatory rate and increase in vocal loudness, associated to the production of different s...

The study seeks to establish the frequency of occurrence for processes of connected speech and to examine the role of rate, hypothesizing that high rate fosters processes. Auditory and acoustic analysis was performed on 4.5 hs of speech of 9 speakers of Lancashire from the Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain corpus (PAC). As for the first aim, the following ranking emerges: /d/ deletion (34%),...

Variations in rate of speech (ROS) produce changes in both spectral features and word pronunciations that affect automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To deal with these ROS effects, we propose to use parallel, rate-specific, acoustic models: one for fast speech, the other for slow speech. Rate switching is permitted at word boundaries, to allow modeling within-sentence speech rate variat...