The German Text-to-Speech Synthesis system MARY is presented. An interface allowing to access and modify intermediate processing steps without the need for a technical understanding of the system is described, along with examples of how this interface can be put to use in research, development and teaching.

In this paper we propose a divide and conquer strategy for the calculation of hazard free prime implicants. It is capable of calculating all hazard free prime implicants but it can be restricted to calculate only those primes that can possibly contribute to a solution. We show that this significantly reduces the number of generated primes, and thus reduces the runtime of the exact minimization ...

This paper describes the Bell Labs Russian text-to-speech system, a concatenative system with extensive text-analysis capabilities. The construction of Russian-specific modules will be discussed, including the text-analysis module, the acoustic inventory, the duration module, and the intonation module.

We develop a model for the stability and maintenance of phonological categories. Examples of phonological categories are vowel sounds such as i and e. We model such categories as consisting of collections of labeled exemplars that language users store in their memory. Each exemplar is a detailed memory of an instance of the linguistic entity in question. Starting from an exemplar-level model we...

To build a natural soundingspeech synthesissystem, it is essential that the text processing component produce an appropriate sequence of phonemic units correspondingto an arbitrary input text. In this paper we discuss our efforts in addressingthe issues of Font-to-Aksharamapping, pronunciationrules for Aksharas, text normalizationin the context of building text-to-speechsystems in Indian langua...

While speech disfluencies are commonly found in every speaker’s speech, stuttering is a language disorder characterized by an abnormally high rate of speech aberrations, including prolongation, cessation, and repetition of speech segments [5]. However, despite the obvious differences between stuttered and normal speech, identifying the crucial qualities that identify stuttered speech remains a ...