Speech Analysis and Synthesis of Ryukyuan and Asian Languages

随着高速计算机和高速通信网络的发展，利用音视频设备进行通信和处理被称为多媒体通信。语音合成和自动语音识别技术作为利用语音的高科技人机界面，在日常生活中得到了广泛的应用。然而，这些技术主要是针对欧洲国家、日本和中国等语言开发的。对小语种语音合成与识别的研究尚未发展起来。因此，在本研究中，我们通过开发琉球方言语音合成系统，构建了更通用的语音合成系统，可以有效地应用于此类语言。

Communication and processing by using audio and video devices, called Multimedia communication, is developing along with the development of high speed computers and high speed communication networks. Speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition technique are being used in daily life as the high-tech human interface using speech. However, such techniques are mainly developed for languages of European countries, Japan, and China and so on. Study of speech synthesis and recognition for minor languages has not been developed yet. Therefore, in this study, we have constructed more general speech synthesis system which is usefully applied to such languages by developing the speech synthesis system of Ryukyu dialect.