Abstract
An experimental Dutch keyboard-to-speech system has been developed to explor the possibilities and limitations of Dutch speech synthesis in a communication aid for the speech impaired. The system uses diphones and a formant synthesizer chip for speech synthesis. Input to the system is in pseudo-phonetic notation. Intonation contours using a declination line and various rises and falls are generated starting from an input consisting of punctuation and accent marks. The hardware design has resulted in a small, portable and battery-powered device. A short evaluation with users has been carried out, which has shown possibilities for such a device but has also indicated some problems with the current pseudo-phonetic input.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 81-89 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Speech Communication |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1989 |
Keywords
- diphones
- Dutch
- evaluation
- microprocessor
- speech communication aids
- Speech synthesis
