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Speech Synthesis using Vocabulary of Interphoneme Transitions


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1 Eurasian National University named L. N. Gumilyov, Scientific-Research Institute,Astana, Kazakhstan
 

Objectives: This paper presents a modified method of diphone synthesis of Kazakh language. The aim of this work is to create a high-speed synthesizer with acceptable quality. Methods/Statistical Analysis: Diphones represent transitions between sounds (interphoneme transitions). Therefore, to increase the quality of standard method, a technique was used for trimming the edges according to signal quasi-periods and automatic splicing normalization according to the amplitude at the beginning and the ends, which gave a significant increase in quality while maintaining the advantages of this method of synthesis. Application/Improvements: Finally, the described method is implemented as software for speech synthesis of the Kazakh and Russian languages.

Keywords

Diphone, Quasi-Period, Phoneme, Synthesis, Speech.
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Almaz Sadenov
Eurasian National University named L. N. Gumilyov, Scientific-Research Institute,Astana, Kazakhstan

Abstract


Objectives: This paper presents a modified method of diphone synthesis of Kazakh language. The aim of this work is to create a high-speed synthesizer with acceptable quality. Methods/Statistical Analysis: Diphones represent transitions between sounds (interphoneme transitions). Therefore, to increase the quality of standard method, a technique was used for trimming the edges according to signal quasi-periods and automatic splicing normalization according to the amplitude at the beginning and the ends, which gave a significant increase in quality while maintaining the advantages of this method of synthesis. Application/Improvements: Finally, the described method is implemented as software for speech synthesis of the Kazakh and Russian languages.

Keywords


Diphone, Quasi-Period, Phoneme, Synthesis, Speech.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.17485/ijst%2F2016%2Fv9i47%2F133693