Subword Unit Concatenation for Malay Speech Synthesis
In this paper, we propose an idea to use subword synthesis units to generate novel word sound of Malay language. The subword synthesis units were carefully created based on Malay phoneme adjacency analysis. The phoneme adjacency analysis was used to find out which adjacent phonemes that would not introduce audible distortion if the phonemes were concatenated. Besides phoneme adjacency factor, we also include prosodic features in selecting the subword synthesis unit. Thus, by considering both phoneme adjacency and prosodic feature in selecting the subword units, a smooth sound of novel word can be obtained.
Keywords: Subword Concatenation, Phoneme Adjacency Analysis, Concatenative synthesis, Speech Synthesis, Malay language.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Sabrina Tiun
Author Sabrina Tiun received her Ph.D from Universiti Sains Malaysia recently. Her research work and interests range from Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics to Speech Processing. She is currently working as a lecturer in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
Rosni Abdullah
Rosni Abdullah is a professor and the Dean of the school of Computer Sciences in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. She is known for her actively involvement in the research of Parallel Processing, Bioinformatics and Cloud Computing.
Tang Enyakong
Tang Enya Kong is an Associate Professor at Multimedia University, Selangor, Malaysia. He is one of the prominent researchers in Natural Language Processing community in Malaysia. His works covers from Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Knowledge Representation and Speech Processing.
Sabrina Tiun
Author Sabrina Tiun received her Ph.D from Universiti Sains Malaysia recently. Her research work and interests range from Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics to Speech Processing. She is currently working as a lecturer in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
Rosni Abdullah
Rosni Abdullah is a professor and the Dean of the school of Computer Sciences in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. She is known for her actively involvement in the research of Parallel Processing, Bioinformatics and Cloud Computing.
Tang Enyakong
Tang Enya Kong is an Associate Professor at Multimedia University, Selangor, Malaysia. He is one of the prominent researchers in Natural Language Processing community in Malaysia. His works covers from Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Knowledge Representation and Speech Processing.
