U.S.-India Cooperative Research: Development of Rules for Synthesis of Hindi Speech, Award in U.S. and Indian Currency

产品描述： 该项目支持美国科学家Kenneth Stevens博士和S.S.博士的合作项目，Kenneth Stevens博士来自马萨诸塞州理工学院电子研究实验室，剑桥桥，MA。印度新德里中央电子工程研究所（CEERI）的Agrawal说。 这两位科学家计划用计算机进行印地语语音合成，并开发基本印地语音素合成和连接的规则，以生成单词和句子。 这些研究的结果随后将用于开发印地语的文本语音合成器。 KLSYN88是麻省理工学院开发的级联并行格式合成器，将被用作分析和合成声音的基本工具。 由于印地语语音包含几种与欧洲语言不同的特殊声音，其中最重要的是塞音和塞擦音，因此将特别注意这些声音的分析和合成。 除了这两位资深科学家外，来自麻省理工学院的一名博士后和一名初级研究员也将参与研究，并将在新德里实验室与印度科学家合作。 范围：该项目允许两名能力互补的知名科学家合作开展重要的科学工作。 与印地语语音分析和合成有关的主要实验工作将在CEERI进行，而一些实验也将在麻省理工学院进行。 通过通信和P.I.互访，将经常交换意见，审查数据、技术和结果。和美国年轻科学家。该项目符合国际方案司在促进国际合作和增加青年科学家接触国际科学领域方面的目标。

Description: This project supports a cooperative project by a US scientist, Dr. Kenneth Stevens, from the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Dr. S.S. Agrawal of the Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI) in New Delhi, India. The two scientists plan to conduct synthesis of Hindi speech by computer, and to develop rules for synthesis and concatenation of basic Hindi phonemes to generate words and sentences. The results of these studies would be subsequently used to develop a text-to-speech synthesizer for the Hindi language. The KLSYN88, a cascade-parallel format synthesizer developed at MIT will be used as the basic tool to analyze and synthesize the sounds. Since Hindi speech posses several types of special sounds that differ from the sounds in European languages, the most important of these are the stops and affricates, special attention will be paid to the analysis and synthesis of these sounds. In addition to the two senior scientists, a post doctorate and a junior researcher from MIT will also participate in the research and will work with the Indian scientists in the New Delhi Laboratory. Scope: This project allows cooperation of two well known scientists whose capabilities complement each other to do important scientific work. The major experimental work related to analysis and synthesis of Hindi speech will be carried at CEERI, while some experiments will also be conducted at MIT. There will be frequent exchange of ideas, review of data, techniques and results through correspondence and through exchanges of visits by the P.I.'s and by the U.S. junior scientists. This project meets the objectives of the Division of International Programs in fostering international collaboration and increasing the exposure of young scientists to the international scientific scene.