Phrase splicing and variable substitution using the IBM trainable speech synthesis system
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This paper describes a phrase splicing and variable substitution system which offers an intermediate form of automated speech production lying in-between the extremes of recorded utterance playback and full text-to-speech synthesis. The system incorporates a trainable speech synthesiser and an application specific set of pre-recorded phrases. The text to be synthesised is converted to a phone sequence using phone sequences present in the pre-recorded phrases wherever possible, and a pronunciation dictionary elsewhere. The synthesis inventory of the synthesiser is augmented with the synthesis information associated with the pre-recorded phrases used to construct the phone sequence. The synthesiser then performs a dynamic programming search over the augmented inventory to select a segment sequence to produce the output speech. The system enables the seamless splicing of pre-recorded phrases both with other phrases and with synthetic speech. It enables very high quality speech to be produced automatically within a limited domain.
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