OPTIMIZATION OF SPEECH SYNTHESIS SOFTWARE

描述：(改编自申请者的摘要)口才 Technology，Inc.(ETI)建议优化和增强Delta语音 合成软件将其优势扩展到语言障碍者 个人。主要目标是建立一个灵活的软件基础， 将为语音输出通信辅助工具(VOCA)的开发商提供更多 灵活地向VOCA添加所需的功能，如新语音、 方言和语言，以及对韵律的更好控制。ETI‘s Delta 软件包括：(1)Delta系统、编程语言和 高质量、低成本、高效率发展的互动环境 基于规则的综合程序，以及(2)增量综合程序 多种方言和语言。具体地说，在其第二阶段项目中， ETI将优化Delta合成软件以在其上高效运行 适用于经济实惠的电池供电VOCA的微处理器，以及 将使用对VOCA重要的功能来增强软件。在……里面 此外，ETI还将与Prentke Romich Company(中国)一起开发一款 基于微处理器的语音板，用于优化Delta软件，以及 将在中国解放者VOCA的新版本中实施该板。 除了这项工作带来的直接好处外，该项目 将导致VOCA中的其他各种急需的功能，包括 控制表达情绪的语调。更广泛地说， 优化的Delta软件将应用于语音研究和 各种各样的发展。

DESCRIPTION: (Adapted from the Applicant's Abstract) Eloquent Technology, Inc. (ETI) proposes to optimize and enhance the Delta speech synthesis software to extend its advantages to speech-impaired individuals. The primary goal is a flexible software foundation that will give developers of voice output communication aids (VOCAs) greater flexibility in adding needed features to VOCAs, such as new voices, dialects, and languages, and better control over prosody. ETI's Delta software includes: (1) the Delta System, a programming language and interactive environment for cost-efficient development of high-quality, rule-based synthesis programs, and (2) Delta synthesis programs for multiple dialects and languages.Specifically, in its Phase II project, ETI will optimize the Delta synthesis software to run efficiently on microprocessors appropriate for affordable battery-powered VOCAs, and will enhance the software with features important for VOCAs. In addition together with Prentke Romich Company (PRC), ETI will develop a microprocessor-based speech board for the optimized Delta Software, and will implement this board in a new version of PRC's Liberator VOCA. Besides the immediate benefits resulting from this work, the project will lead to a variety of other much-needed features in VOCAs, including control of intonation for expressing emotion. More generally, the optimized Delta software will have applications for speech research and development of all kinds.