SPEECH SYNTHESIS FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH ALIGNMENT AND PROSODIC FEATURE EXTRACTION

The aim of this paper is to present a new and promising approach of the text-to-speech alignment problem. For thi:j purpose, an original idea is developed : a high quality digital speech synthesizer is used to create a reference speech pattern used during the alignment process. The system has been used and tested to extract the prosodic [eatures 01 read French utterances. The results show a segmentation error rate of about 8%. This system will be ;I powerl'ul tool for the automatic creation of large prosodically labeled databases and for research on automatic prosody generation.

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