Giurgiu, M. (2008) Exploring Fine Phonetic Detail for Romanian text to speech synthesis Acta Tehnica Napocensis - Electronics and Telecommunications Vol 49 (3), 44-47. Cluj-Napoca, Romania
This paper presents several experimental results on the study of Fine Phonetic Detail (FPD) in order to create the basis of a computational model for prosody description in a system for Text To Speech (TTS) synthesis. Different manifestation levels of FPDs together with their importance for TTS are presented. The experiments reported here, mainly take into consideration the linguistic aspect of prosody in a qualitative and quantitative manner: the influence of the accent at word and sentence level, the intonation, the rhythm and the speech rate.
