ChineseLanguages-Whatwearefacinginspeechsynthesi.ppt

Chinese Languages- What we are facing in speech synthesis Chinese Languages Dialects Minority languages 55 big families Official language: Putonghua or Standard Chinese SC , common writing system based on SC Chinese Dialects 9 /10 dialectal areas: Guan官话, Jin晋语,Wu 吴语, Hui 徽语, Xiang湘语, Gan赣语, Hakka 客家话, Yue粤语 and Min闽语 平话 PingHua Mandarin is referred to as Standard Chinese or common language. The language that was used by the government The language that was normally spoken by the native speakers. Guan Mandarin dialect is different from Mandarin Mandarin is based on the Guan Mandarin dialects. Guan Mandarin dialects cover large regional areas. Each has tremendous difference from one and other. Guan Mandarin dialects exist objectively without any limitations or conventions as Mandarin. A dialect is usually spoken by people from different provinces Example of Modern Wu dialects Population Place 16,400,000 JianSu 11,850,000 Shanghai 36,650,000 ZheJiang 1,850,000 Northeast part of Jiangxi 270,000 North Pu of Fujian 3,100,000 South Anhui Total area: 137,500 Km2 Wu dialect is a group of dialects spoken in ShangHai, ZheJiang, southern JiangSu, and part of FuJian and AnHui. Wu dialect has about 70 million speakers, which makes it the second biggest dialect running after Mandarin. The dialect of interest in this paper is Shanghainese, the native dialect spoken in Shanghai covering more than 11,850,000 populations. Although it is rather young in Wu dialect family, Shanghainese becomes more and more interesting to researchers because of its economical and political importance. Can we synthesize these dialectal words?Do we need to synthesize Chinese dialects? Examples from MinNan dialect 赶紧去口9+50+103淡薄水来互伊啉。 kua~ ki_n k_hi tsa~ ta_m po? tsui lai hO i li_m in SAMPA-C 口4+27+103使甲侬口12+33+103中指，无礼貌。 bue sai ka? lO_N kiau tiO_N tsai bo le bau in SAMPA-C 字写甲歪歪口9+86+1039+86+106真否看。 li sia ka? uai uai tsuai? tsuai? tsi_n p_ha~i k_hua~ in SAMPA-C 阿瑛