Wiliam J. Poser & Masanobu Abe
Modified
MITalk
Abstract:This memorandum describes a modified version of the MITalk text-to-speech system that produces Japanese of a sort for experimental purposes. The modified version accepts romanized Japanese text as input and produces speech whose spectral properties are those of English but to which the phonological rules of English have not applied. The modified version allows the prosodic properties of the speech (duration and fundamental frequency) to be specified separately and merged with the segmental information generated by the higher levels of MITalk.