In this paper we present a computer program PROSO a linguistic rule compiler which applies a number of prosodic rules inserting appropriate markers to any text inputted, on the basis of phonological rules and of syntactic structure, this one computed separately by an RTN parser(see Delmonte & Dolci, 1989) and made visible to PROSO only at a certain structural level, though. The output of this program can then be passed on to a system like VOXPC, the text-to-speech module commercialized by Olivetti, which allows the user to provide explicit phonetic and prosodic information in order to modify the internal coding procedures. VOXPC is a system completely lacking in linguistic knowledge apart from the well-known distinction between content and function words: the quality of the system is very poor both at word level and at sentence and text level.
Computing Linguistic Knowledge for Text-To-Speech Systems With PROSO
DELMONTE, Rodolfo;
1991-01-01
Abstract
In this paper we present a computer program PROSO a linguistic rule compiler which applies a number of prosodic rules inserting appropriate markers to any text inputted, on the basis of phonological rules and of syntactic structure, this one computed separately by an RTN parser(see Delmonte & Dolci, 1989) and made visible to PROSO only at a certain structural level, though. The output of this program can then be passed on to a system like VOXPC, the text-to-speech module commercialized by Olivetti, which allows the user to provide explicit phonetic and prosodic information in order to modify the internal coding procedures. VOXPC is a system completely lacking in linguistic knowledge apart from the well-known distinction between content and function words: the quality of the system is very poor both at word level and at sentence and text level.
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