兰州方言的声学特征分析和语音合成的分析-analysis of acoustic features and speech synthesis in lanzhou dialect.docx

AbstractSpeech is the most convenient way of communication. A great many dialects are adopted between man-man dialogs. Since dialect conversion can improve the harmony, diversity and efficiency of man-machine speech interaction, it has been an important research topic in the field of human-computer speech communication. To achieve the synthesized dialect speech, the prosodic model should be produced for the Text-to-Speech synthesis system. A Lanzhou dialect corpus was built based on Word-list in dialectal survey. Five Degrees Tone Model based prosodic models were built for Lanzhou Dialect by analyzing the differences of pitch, duration and pause duration between Lanzhou dialect and Mandarin. Lanzhou dialect was converted from Mandarin. The results of the research have important value for speech theorys and applications in finding the relation between Mandarin and Lanzhou dialect as well as achieving the synthesis of dialect speech. Main achievements and originalities are as follow:Firstly, a Lanzhou dialect corpus was built. By analyzing the phonology features between Mandarin and Lanzhou dialect and combining with “Dialect word list”, a scientific text corpus was built. Speech corpus was recorded with contrastive (Lanzhou dialect vs. Mandarin) recordings. Speech corpus was labeled for each syllable. This corpus includes 1280 monosyllables, 2000 disyllable, 500 sentences and18 carrier sentences. Monosyllables were designed based on the maximized combinations between different initial and final, and cover the four tones. Disyllables were designed on the combinations of the four tones and the light tone. Sentences include spoken language of Lanzhou dialect and quilt from china daily. Carrier sentences formed as”X say X that X”.Secondly, the acoustic differences between Lanzhou dialect and Manderin were analyzed by comparing the acoustic features of monosyllables, disyllable and sentences. Model parameters were analyzed with Pitch Target model. The relationship o