VieCtoS - Speech Synthesizer, Technical Overview

This report describes the overall architecture of the speech synthesis module developed for VieCtoS, the Vienna concept-to-speech system for Austrian German. A technical description of the methods used for the representation of inventory elements, their concatenation and the facilities for interpreting and superimposing prosody is presented. An overview of the implementation and the user environment as well as some details concerning program and test design are included in order to facilitate usage and further development. General Overview In the Vienna Concept to Speech (VieCtoS) project (for an overview see [1]) information from a database as input is processed to form an acoustic output---with intonation and phrasing according to the information content. The target language is German, and the synthesizer is template based, with demisyllables recorded from a male speaker of standard An extract from this report titled "Realization of Prosody in a Speech Synthesizer for German" has b..