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Development of Output System of Announcing Speech with Input of Kanji-Kana Sentences

Research Project

Project/Area Number 01850073
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Developmental Scientific Research (B).

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 計算機工学
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

HIROSE Keikichi  Univ. of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering, Associate Professor, 工学部, 助教授 (50111472)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) YAMAGUCHI Mikio  Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Research Development Center, Researcher, 研究開発本部, 研究員
MORIKAWA Hiroyoshi  Univ. of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering, Assistant, 工学部, 助手 (40011217)
FUJISAKI Hiroya  Univ. of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (80010776)
Project Period (FY) 1989 – 1990
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1990)
Budget Amount *help
¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,200,000)
Fiscal Year 1990: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1989: ¥4,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000)
KeywordsKanji-Kana Sentences / Announcing Speech / Rule-Synthesis System of Speech / Phone and Prosodic Symbols / Word Dictionary / Syntactic Boundary / Terminal Analog Speech Synthesizer / Digital Signal Processor / ホルマント周波数軌跡 / 蓄積パタ-ン / ワ-クステ-ション / 形態素解析方式
Research Abstract

This project was organized with the aim of realizing a compact rule-synthesis system which converts the input Kana-Kanji sentences into naturally sounding announcing speech. The system was composed of a small work station and a digital processor based speech synthesizer. The main results obtained are as follows :
1. A word dictionary was constructed and stored in the hard disc memory of the work station. Each word item of the dictionary includes morpheme composition, phoneme representation, part of speech, type of declension/conjugation, accent type and index of importance.
2. A method for morpheme analysis was developed which decomposes the input sentences into word strings. This method is based on the word template matching with longer the better policy, and checking of the propriety in the conjunction between neighboring words. A method for linguistic analysis was also developed which performs syntactic and semantic analyses for the unit segmented by the punctuation marks and represen … More t the obtained syntactic structure of the sentence using terms of clause boundary, ICRLB (immediate constituent with recursively left-branching structure) boundary, etc.
3. A program was constructed on the work station which generates phone and prosodic symbols using results of word segmentation (including indices of importance) and the information on syntactic boundaries.
4. A new type of terminal analog speech synthesizer was developed consisting of four separate cascade paths simulating the vocal transfer functions of the four different speech categories and three types of excitation sources, viz., glottal waveform, fricative noise and plosive noise. The outstanding development in the speech quality was observed typically for the stop consonants.
5. Syllable templates for above mentioned speech synthesizer were constructed for all possible Japanese syllables and stored in the hard disc memory of the work station.
6. A program was developed which concatenates stored syllable templates and produces temporal pattern of feature parameters of continuous speech. The concatenation of vowel and vowel-like sounds was conducted using the method based on the technique of representing formant trajectories by the linear combination of aim functions.
7. A module-type small terminal analog speech synthesizer was developed which generates synthesized speech with the inputs of temporal patterns of acoustic features. The synthesizer was composed of a digital signal processor and other electronic components.
8. The module-type synthesizer was inserted into the work station to construct a total system for the output of announcing speech. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 1990 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1989 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (26 results)

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All Publications (26 results)

  • [Publications] 藤崎 博也: "タ-ミナルアナログ型合成器による日本語音声の規則合成" 日本音響学会春季研究会講演論文集. I. 189-190 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiroya Fujisaki: "A System for Synthesizing Japanese Speech from Orthographic Text" Proceedings of 1990 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,Speech and Signal Processing (Albuqurque). 1. 617-620 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 藤崎 博也: "高品質音声合成のためのタ-ミナルアナログ型音声合成器" 電子情報通信学会音声研究会. SP90ー1. 1-8 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 広瀬 啓吉: "テキストからの日本語音声合成システム" 電子情報通信学会音声研究会. SP90ー42. 23-30 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] JohnーPaul Hosom: "日本語の鼻子音及び鼻音化母音の音響的特徴" 日本音響学会秋季研究発表会講演論文集. I. 227-228 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiroya Fujisaki: "Proposal and Evaluation of New Type of Terminal Analog Speech Synthesizer" Proceedings of 1990 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing(Kobe). 1. 329-332 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiroya Fujisaki: "Manifestation of Linguistic and Paraーlinguistic Information in the Voice Fundamental Frequency Contours of Spoken Japanese" Proceedings of 1990 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing(Kobe). 1. 485-488 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Mikio Yamaguchi: "Trial Production of a ^・Module for Speech)Synthesis by Rule" Proceedings of 1990 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing(Kobe). 2. 857-860 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiroya Fujisaki: "Rule Synthesis of Speech Using Terminal Analog Synthesizer" Rec. Spring Meeting Acoust. Soc. Japan. I. 189-190 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiroya Fujisaki: "A System for Synthesizing Japanese Speech from Orthographic. Text" Proc. 1990 IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. 1. 617-620 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiroya Fujisaki: "Terminal Analog Speech Synthesizer for High Quality Speech Synthesis" Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Technical Report. SP90-1. 1-8 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Keikichi Hirose: "A System for Speech Synthesis from Orthographic Text of Japanese" Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Technical Report. SP90-42. 23-30 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] John-Paul Hosom: "Acoustic Characteristics of Japanese Nasal Consonants and Nasalized Vowels" Rec. Fall Meeting Acoust. Soc Japan. I. 227-228 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiroya Fujisaki: "Proposal and Evaluation of a New Type of Terminal Analog Speech Synthesizer" Proc. 1990 International Conf. on Spoken Language Processing. 1. 329-332 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiroya Fujisaki: "Manifestation of Linguistic and Para-linguistic Information in the Voice Fundamental Frequency Contours of Spoken Japanese" Proc. 1990 International Conf. on Spoken Language Processing. 1. 485-488 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Mikio Yamaguchi: "Trial Production of a Module for Speech synthesis by Rule" Proc. 1990 International Conf. on Spoken Language Processing. 2. 857-860 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] "A system for Synthesizing Japanese Speech from Orthographic Text" Proceedings of 1990 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,Speech and Signal Processing (Albuqurque). 1. 617-620 (1990)

    • Related Report
      1990 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 藤崎 博也: "高品質音声合成のためのタ-ミナルアナログ型音声合成器" 電子情報通信学会音声研究会. SP90ー1. 1-8 (1990)

    • Related Report
      1990 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 広瀬 啓吉: "テキストからの日本語音声合成システム" 電子情報通信学会音声研究会. SP90ー42. 23-30 (1990)

    • Related Report
      1990 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] JohnーPaul Hosom: "日本語の鼻子音及び鼻音化母音の音響的特徴" 日本音響学会秋季研究発表会講演論文集. I. 227-228 (1990)

    • Related Report
      1990 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Hiroya Fujisaki: "Proposal and Evaluation of New Type of Terminal Analog Speech Synthesizer" Proceedings of 1990 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Kobe). 1. 329-332 (1990)

    • Related Report
      1990 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Hiroya Fujisaki: "Manifestation of Linguistic and Paraーlinguistic Information in the Voice Fundamental Frequency contours of Spoken Japanese" Proceedings of 1990 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Kobe). I. 485-488 (1990)

    • Related Report
      1990 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Mikio Yamaguchi: "Trial Production of a Module for Speech Synthesis by Rule" Proceedings of 1990 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Kobe). 2. 857-860 (1990)

    • Related Report
      1990 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 藤崎博也: "高品質の音声合成に適したタ-ミナルアナログ型音声合成器の構成" 日本音響学会秋季研究発表会講演論文集. I. 279-280 (1989)

    • Related Report
      1989 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 藤崎博也: "ホルマント合成器による日本語音声の規則合成" 日本音響学会春季研究発表会講演論文集. (1990)

    • Related Report
      1989 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Hiroya Fujisaki: "A System for Synthesizing Japanese Speech from Orthographic Text" Proceedings of 1990 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,Speech,and Signal Processing. (1990)

    • Related Report
      1989 Annual Research Report

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