Integrating coding techniques into LP-based Mandarin text-to-speech synthesis

Abstract

In this paper, speech coding techniques are integrated into a Mandarin text-to-speech system. By exploiting the intrinsic properties of Mandarin, we encode the acoustic features of 408 syllabic utterances into templates, each containing modeling parameters for speech synthesis. As a result, the developed TTS system demands merely 36 Kbytes to store all syllabic templates.