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International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages
With Emphasis on Tone Languages
Beijing, China
March 28-31, 2004 |
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Applying the Munich Parametric High Definition (PHD) Speech Synthesis System to the Problem of Teaching Chinese Tones to L1 Speakers of German
Hans G. Tillmann (1), Hartmut R. Pfitzinger (1,2)
(1) Institut für Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation, University of Munich, Germany
(2) JST/CREST at ATR Human Information Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan
The aim of this paper is threefold:
- First and foremost we would like to propose a new strategy
of phonetic speech research that can be distinguished
from more traditional research programs in more than
one important aspect.
- As directly opposed to the classical analysis-by-synthesis
paradigm our second aim is to install the new
paradigm of synthesis-by-analysis.
- And our third aim is to convince our audience that only
strictly application-oriented phonetic speech research
will lead to a deeper understanding of how speech acts
really function phonetically.
The paper will be given in two parts. After the presentation
of the philosophy behind our new research activity mentioned in
the title, the second author will present a demonstration of the
PHD-system in order to illustrate its applicability for solving
the problems described by the first author.
Full Paper
Bibliographic reference.
Tillmann, Hans G. / Pfitzinger, Hartmut R. (2004):
"Applying the Munich parametric high definition (PHD) speech synthesis system to the problem of teaching Chinese tones to L1 speakers of German",
In TAL-2004, 185-188.