Title:
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2017/082717
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
The present invention provides a HMM (Hidden Markov Model) based Malay text to Malay speech synthesis system (100) comprising of a plurality of software modules (105, 110) in the form of computer readable instructions residing in memory (22) of a computer (20) and executed by a central processing unit (CPU) (21) of said computer (20), the system (100) comprising of a training module (105) for the training of a plurality of HMM (Hidden Markov Model) statistical predictive models residing in a statistical parameter model database (113) to generate an acoustic speech model of Malay speech and a synthesizing module (110) for synthesizing Malay speech from a Malay text input string (111) utilizing context dependent labels generated from the Malay text input string (111) and the acoustic model for Malay speech; characterized in that, the speech synthesis module (110) includes a context dependent label generation unit (112) that automatically generates context dependent labels for Malay language from Malay language input text string (111) derived in part from syllabification rules that are exclusive to Malay language.
Inventors:
PEER MUSTAFA MUMTAZ BEGUM (MY)
MOHAMED YUSOOF MANSOOR ALI (MY)
MOHAMED YUSOOF MANSOOR ALI (MY)
Application Number:
PCT/MY2016/050076
Publication Date:
February 15, 2018
Filing Date:
November 09, 2016
Export Citation:
Assignee:
UNIV MALAYA (MY)
International Classes:
G10L13/08; G10L19/00; G10L19/04
Other References:
MUMTAZ B. MUSTAFA ET AL.: "Context-Dependent Labels for an HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System for Malay", ORIENTAL COCOSDA HELD JOINTLY WITH 2013 CONFERENCE ON ASIAN SPOKEN LANGUAGE RESEARCH AND EVALUATION (0-COCOSDA/CASLRE, 25 November 2013 (2013-11-25), XP032545480
THANH-SON PHAN ET AL.: "Improvement of Naturalness for an HMM-based Vietnamese Speech Synthesis using the Prosodic information", 2013 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES - RESEARCH, INNOVATION, AND VISION FOR THE FUTURE (RIVF, 10 November 2013 (2013-11-10), pages 276 - 281, XP032555125
HAFIZ MUSA ET AL.: "Syllabification Algorithm based on Syllable Rules Matching for Malay Language", 10TH WSEAS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED COMPUTER AND APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE, 8 March 2011 (2011-03-08), pages 279 - 286, XP055464035
CHEE-MING THING ET AL.: "Automatic Phonetic Segmentation of Malay Speech Database", 2007 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS & SIGNAL PROCESSING, 10 December 2007 (2007-12-10), XP031229382
TIEN-PING TAN ET AL.: "Malay Grapheme to Phoneme Tool for Automatic Speech Recognition", WORKSHOP OF MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA LANGUAGE ENGINEERING (MALINDO, 2009, XP055464038
THANH-SON PHAN ET AL.: "Improvement of Naturalness for an HMM-based Vietnamese Speech Synthesis using the Prosodic information", 2013 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES - RESEARCH, INNOVATION, AND VISION FOR THE FUTURE (RIVF, 10 November 2013 (2013-11-10), pages 276 - 281, XP032555125
HAFIZ MUSA ET AL.: "Syllabification Algorithm based on Syllable Rules Matching for Malay Language", 10TH WSEAS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED COMPUTER AND APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE, 8 March 2011 (2011-03-08), pages 279 - 286, XP055464035
CHEE-MING THING ET AL.: "Automatic Phonetic Segmentation of Malay Speech Database", 2007 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS & SIGNAL PROCESSING, 10 December 2007 (2007-12-10), XP031229382
TIEN-PING TAN ET AL.: "Malay Grapheme to Phoneme Tool for Automatic Speech Recognition", WORKSHOP OF MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA LANGUAGE ENGINEERING (MALINDO, 2009, XP055464038
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
AWANG, Muhammad Irfan Mustaqim (MY)
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