The design and application of a speech database for Mandarin TTS system is presented in this paper. To build a scientific, versatile speech database to meet the call for improving the quality of synthesis units and enhancing previous prosodic models, is the main point of the research. The database structure and contents and the methodology for creating similar database are described, and also s...

Database design has long been recognized as a difficult problem, requiring a great deal of skill on the part of the designer. Research has been carried out that provides methodologies and rules for creating good designs. There have even been attempts to automate the design process. However, before these can be truly successful, methodologies and tools are needed that can incorporate and use dom...