SPEAK: a speech synthesis system

Authors

Michael Barlow, University of WollongongFollow

Publication Date

1985

Recommended Citation

Barlow, Michael, SPEAK: a speech synthesis system, Department of Computing Science, University of Wollongong, Working Paper 85-20, 1985, 58p.
https://ro.uow.edu.au/compsciwp/42

Abstract

The speech synthesis system described in this report comprises a letter-to-sound rule system with a supporting hardware phoneme synthesiser. Input ASCII text is converted to International Phonetic Alphabet phonemes through the application of letter-to-sound rules. These IPA phonemes are then converted to the representation required by the Votrax phoneme synthesiser and sent to be synthesised. The letterto-sound rules dictate a phonetic transcription to be given to various letter groupings.