Japanese Text-to-Speech Conversion Software System

摘要

A software only Japanese text-to-speech conversion system has been developed. This has been realized mainly by two reasons. One is employment of low computational cost and high quality speech synthesis method. The other is improvement of computer hardware (CPU, memory, harddisk, etc.). It runs on standard Personal Computers (PC) without any additional hardware such as a Digital Signal Processors (DSP), so that installation cost is very low.rnAnd this system provides application interfaces, so that any application programs can easily use text-to-speech function.