The "Tiepstem" : an experimental Dutch keyboard-to-speech system for the speech impaired

An experimental Dutch keyboard-to-speech system has been developed to explor the possibilities and limitations of Dutch speech synthesis in a communication aid for the speech impaired. The system uses diphones and a formant synthesizer chip for speech synthesis. Input to the system is in pseudo-phonetic notation. Intonation contours using a declination line and various rises and falls are generated starting from an input consisting of punctuation and accent marks. The hardware design has resulted in a small, portable and battery-powered device. A short evaluation with users has been carried out, which has shown possibilities for such a device but has also indicated some problems with the current pseudo-phonetic input

A stand-alone text-to-speech system

A prototype of a general-purpose stand-alone text-to-speech system has been built that converts text in normal Dutch orthography into speech. This paper describes the development and features of this system. It uses a rule-based grapheme-phoneme conversion and speech synthesis based on diphone concatenation and a formant synthesizer chip. The hardware is built around an 68000 microprocessor

An experimental Dutch keyboard-to-speech system for the speech impaired

An experimental Dutch keyboard-to-speech system has been developed to explor the possibilities and limitations of Dutch speech synthesis in a communication aid for the speech impaired. The system uses diphones and a formant synthesizer chip for speech synthesis. Input to the system is in pseudo-phonetic notation. Intonation contours using a declination line and various rises and falls are generated starting from an input consisting of punctuation and accent marks. The hardware design has resulted in a small, portable and battery-powered device. A short evaluation with users has been carried out, which has shown possibilities for such a device but has also indicated some problems with the current pseudo-phonetic input

A stand-alone text-to-speech system

A prototype of a general-purpose stand-alone text-to-speech system has been built that converts text in normal Dutch orthography into speech. This paper briefly describes the features of this system