A Study on Prosodic Boundaries Location and SynthesizedUnits Selection Algorithms in Mandarin Speech Synthesis
Chi Huisheng · Acta Scicentiarum Naturalum Universitis Pekinesis · 2004
A new statistical prosodic structure model is proposed,which is based on the idea of analyzing and modeling of hierarchical stochastic properties of Chinese mandarin,where three basic levels of prosodic structure are divided as:prosodic word,prosodic phrase,prosodic phrase cluster.Meanwhile,synthesized units selection algorithms,which are suited for large-corpus-based speech synthesis,are described and discussed in this paper.The experimental results show that the proposed model is effective and high performance could be obtained.