Speech analysis and synthesis on a personal computer

Abstract

A personal computer based system which can be used for speech digitization and acquisition, editing and segmentation, analysis and encoding, synthesis and replay and the study of language phonetic properties is described. The system is user interactive and can be used either in a stand-alone mode to provide all the functions needed for constructive synthesis and synthesis-by-analysis or linked to a host computer to provide additional signal processing capabilities which are useful in speech research.