Author/Editor		Gros, Jerneja; Pavešić, Nikola; Mihelič, France
Title		Speech timing in Slovenian text-to-speech synthesis
Type		članek
Source		In: Anonymous, editor. Proceedings of the 2nd SQEL workshop on multi-lingual information retrieval dialogs; 1997 Apr 27-29; Plzen. Plzen: University of west Bohemia,
Publication year		1997
Volume		str. 137-40
Language		eng
Abstract		Speech timing at different speaking rates was studied for the Slovenian language and the results were applied for duration modelling in the Slovenian text-tospeech system S5. In order to provide the text-to-speech synthesiser with the possibility to pronounce input text with several speaking rates, tests were made to study the impact of speaking rate on syllable duration and duration of individual phonemes and phoneme groups for the Slovenian language. A two-level approach to durational modelling is described. A method for segment duration prediction was developed, wich adapts a word with a intrinisie duration to the determined extrinsie deration, talking into account how stretching and squeezing apply to duration of individual segments
Descriptors		SPEECH PHONETICS SPEECH ACOUSTICS