Record Details     « New Search       Brief Record Full Record MARC Record     Bibliographic Data Control Number UPD-00000155062 Date and Time of Latest Transaction 20090716215358.0 General Information 030114s2002 eng Cataloging Source DML Language Code eng Local Call Number LG 995 2002 E64 C62 Main Entry - Personal Name Co, Melvin O. Title Statement Prosody development for Filipino text-to-speech systems / by Melvin O.Co Physical Description ix, 89 leaves : ill Summary, Etc. Prosody is the aspect of speech that gives linguistic information at a suprasegmental level, which aids in the comprehension and intelligibility of the speech. Prosody is composed of the microprosodic component and macroprosodic component. Microprosody is influence by individual speech sounds while macroprosody is a speaker's choice of intonation. In this research, an automated macroprosody overlay for Filipino Text-to-Speech (TTS) system was developed. Samples of selected natural utterances of Filipino sentences was collected, pre-processed, transcribed at the word level and analyzed for macroprosody of continuous speech. In addition, isolated utterance of Filipino words as gathered, which serves as the speech corpus for the TTS system. When a sentence or phrase is typed, utterance of each word is obtained from the speech corpus. In order for the synthesized speech to sound natural, appropriate pitch and duration obtained from the gathered Filipino sentences are applied through the use of a concatenative synthesizer called Time Domain Pitch Synchronous Overlap-add (TD-PSOLA) technique. Acceptability test show that the Filipino TTS system comparable to some commercially available English TTS systems. Furthermore, Declarative/Interrogative test confirms that macroprosody was captured by the synthesized speech Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Filipino language -- Versification -- Automation   Speech processing systems   Speech synthesis Collection Category FI   UP Location UP DARCHIVES LG 995 2002 E64 C62 Room-Use Only 2002 UARD-10414T   UP DENG-II LG 995 2002 E64 C62 e2000000324 Room-Use Only 2002 E-92T   UP DARCHIVES LG 995 2002 E64 C62 Room-Use Only 2002 UARD-10414T   UP DENG-II LG 995 2002 E64 C62 e2000000324 Room-Use Only 2002 E-92T Textual Physical Form Designator Thesis           Physical Location University of the Philippines Diliman Main Library: University Archives LG 995 2002 E64 C62 Diliman: College of Engineering Library II LG 995 2002 E64 / C62           Digital Copy Not Available          Add to Book Cart  |   Download MARC