Speech Compression and Synthesis

Abstract

This document reports progress in the development of a phonetic speech synthesis algorithm and in the implementation of a real-time vocoder. The synthesis algorithm uses LPC synthesis from the concatenation of diphone templates. The methodology and basic software of the synthesis work are described. In vocoder system on our PDP-11 and AP-120B computers is described, as is our plan for the modification of this system for improved speech quality. Keywords include: Speech synthesis; Phonetic synthesis; Diphone; LPC synthesis; Vocoder; Speech compression; and Linear prediction.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA155468

Entities

People

  • J. Makhoul
  • R. Viswanathan

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Algorithms
  • Compression
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Data Compression
  • Databases
  • Debugging
  • Graphics
  • Operating Systems
  • Regions
  • Signal Processing
  • Speech Compression
  • Speech Quality
  • Speech Transmission

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  • Engineering

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  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation