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Intelligibility
how well listeners can recognize and understand the individual sounds or words generated by the synthesis system.
Pronunciation modeling
used to filter out unlikely sound sequences.
Domain
specific synthesis- create utterances from prerecorded words and phrases that closely match the words and phrases that will be synthesized.
Noisy channel model
treats speech input as if it has been passed through a communication channel that garbles the speech waveform.
Filter
shapes the sound created by the source into the different sounds we recognize as speech sounds.
Naturalness
how much the synthesized speech sounds like the speech of an actual person.
Isolated speech
the user speaks the input clearly and without extraneous words.
Acoustic modeling
mapping the energy values extracted during signal processing.
Concatenative Synthesis
uses recorded speech by stringing together pieces of the recorded speech and then smoothing the boundaries between them.
Source filter theory
there are two independent parts to the production of speech sounds.
Monitor corpus
as new texts continue to be written or spoken, more data is gathered.
Reference corpus
specified amount of text that has been collected and annotated.
Corpora
can be classified by the genre of the source material.
Word spotting
a program focuses on words it knows and ignores ones it doesnt.
Signal processing
recording the speech waveform with a microphone and storing it in a manner that is suitable for further processing by a computer.
Partial Automation
the source language text can first be pre- edited by a person so as to "prime "it for a machine translation system.
Language modeling
calculating the probability of sequences.
Synthesized speech
piecing together smaller recorded units of speech into new utterances.
Speech synthesis
the use of a machine, usually a computer, to produce human- like speech.
Corpus
can be composed from spoken, signed or written language.
Signal processing
recording the speech waveform with a microphone and storing it in a manner that is suitable for further processing by a computer
Acoustic modeling
mapping the energy values extracted during signal processing
Pronunciation modeling
used to filter out unlikely sound sequences
Language modeling
calculating the probability of sequences
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