Experimental phonetics in speech synthesiser development

Dafydd Gibbon

20 October 1998

NOTICE ABOUT RECORDING SESSIONS:

The recording sessions are in the sound studio on level C01, just inside the side door to the university, at the following times:

1. Friday 6 November, 13.00h
2. DURING CLASS TIME: Thursday 12 November, 08.15h
3. Friday 13 November, 14.00h

 
• 1: Diphone synthesiser design
  • Diphone synthesiser architecture
  • Diphone synthesiser development
• Phonology and phonetics
  • General phonetics
  • Acoustic phonetics
  • Representation, modelling, processing
• Pre-recording phase: Construction of elicitation materials
  • Phoneme list
  • Phoneme pair (diphoneme) list
  • Elicitation materials for reading: short phrases
  • Diphone elicitation table
• Recording phase: studio procedures
  • Main recording scenario
  • Secondary recording scenario
• Post-recording phase: transcription, segmentation, database construction
  • Transcription
  • Segmentation
  • Labelling / annotation
  • Diphone division
  • Diphone extraction
  • Diphone database construction
• Segmentation and alignment
• References