Parametric High Definition (PHD) Speech Synthesis-by-Analysis: The Development of a Fundamentally New System Creating Connected Speech by Modifying Lexically-Represented Language Units

摘要

Our paper has 5 sections. In section (1) we will discuss critically the fact that the development of Text-to-Speech systems and Speech-to-Text systems has in the past been treated as totally spearate problems (we restrict ourselves to so-called dictation systems, L2S and S2L, which either translate written language units L into speech signals S, or speech signals S into sequences of written language units L). In section (2) we argue that for this reason, in the future, theoretical and empirical work should be devoted to providing an approach that integrates the L2S and S2L components into a unified phonetic system, which is able to learn to speak a language and also to understand what other L2S-systems are saying.