OPTIMIZATION OF SPEECH SYNTHESIS SOFTWARE FOR VOCAL COMM

描述（研究者摘要）：重度言语障碍 个人需要负担得起的通信设备， 根据性别、年龄、国籍、 方言。 这种声音的产生受到了高 开发语音合成软件和添加新声音的成本， 尤其是方言。 Eloquent Technology，Inc. (ETI)一直致力于 降低这些开发成本通过（1）一种新的模块化方法， 开发多种语言和方言的合成规则，以及（2） Delta System是一种语音合成软件系统， 模块化的规则可能。 在拟议的项目中，ETI将加强 Delta系统使合成程序用它生成，包括 七种美国英语方言和其他语音的模块规则， 开发的将被优化，以运行在功能较弱的计算机上， 这是紧凑型、可负担得起的通信设备所需要的。 结果将是 各种高质量的合成声音，用于语音交流 以负担得起的价格提供援助。

DESCRIPTION (Investigator's Abstract): Severely speech-impaired individuals need affordable communication devices with natural-sounding synthetic voices that are appropriate in terms of sex, age, nationality, and dialect. The creation of such voices has been hampered by the high cost of developing speech synthesis software and adding new voices, particularly dialects. Eloquent Technology, Inc. (ETI) has been working to reduce these development costs via (1) a novel modular approach to the development of synthesis rules for multiple languages and dialects, and (2) the Delta System, a software system for speech synthesis that makes the modular rules possible. In the proposed project, ETI will enhance the Delta System so that synthesis programs generated with it, including the modular rules for seven American English Dialects and other voices to be developed will be optimized to run on less powerful computers of the sort required in compact, affordable communication devices. The result will be a wide variety of high-quality synthetic voices for vocal communication aids at affordable prices.