YorkTalk audio demonstrations and comparisons.
YorkTalk audio demonstrations and comparisons.
Click one of the icons below to listen to some isolated
disyllables produced by the `industry standard' (segmental,formant synthesis)
DECtalk system. This is included for comparison with the following YorkTalk example
which synthesizes the same words.
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Click one of the icons below to listen to some isolated disyllables produced by the
YorkTalk nonsegmental speech generation system which employs the same
Klatt synthesis engine as used to generate the DECtalk output of the previous example,
but drives it with a different kind of knowledge about the linguistic structures
involved and their phonetic interpretation.
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Click on one of the icons below to hear an example of our
(recent) 'rule'-generated continuous speech utterance. There are some
artifacts in the output (noticeably in the control of frication and
nasality). These arise because we have just `moved synthesisers'.
Originally we employed the Klatt79 software synthesiser but, in order
to gain more linguistically relevant control we have recently begun
using Klatt's Klsyn88 synthesiser. In this latter synthesiser there
are a number of individual gain controls and amplitude parameters which
require slightly different balances from those we used previously.
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