A STUDY ON THE SPEECH SYNTHESIS-BY-RULE SYSTEM APPLIED MULTIBAND EXCITATION SIGNAL

  • Kyung, Younjeong (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Geesoon (Department of Computer Science, Dong-Duck Women's Univ.) ;
  • Lee, Hwangsoo (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, Yanghee (Department of Computer Science, Dong-Duck Women's Univ.)
  • Published : 1994.06.01

Abstract

In this paper, we design and implement the Korean speech synthesis by rule system. This system is applied the multiband excitation signal on voiced sounds. The multiband excitation signal is obtained by mixing impluse spectrum and which noise spectrum. We find that the quality of synthesized speech is improved using this application. Also, we classify the voiced sounds by cepstral euclidian distance measure for reducing overhead memory. The representative excitation signal of the same group's voiced sounds is used as excitation signal on synthesis. This method does not affect the quality of synthesized speech. As the result of experiment, this method eliminates the "buzziness" of synthesized speech and reduces the spectral distortion of synthesized speech.ed speech.

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