Studies in Phonetics [antikvár]

THE PHONETIC BASIS OF ARTIFICIAL RUSSIAN SPEECH, ITS GENERATION BY COMPUTER AND ITS APPLICATION Kalman Bolla and Gabor Kiss Linguistics Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Production of artificial speech does not amount to a special scientific achievement. Microelectronics and computer technology has developed the technical requirements Cie large memory and storage capacity, fast processing speed, small speech synthesizer hardware). With the use of cineradiography and dinamic sound spectrographs linguistic phonetics came to acquire decades earlier the knowledge about the phonetic structure of the sound segments that synthetic speech production required. Now attention is focussed rather on the application of synthetic speech. In Hungary, the first sound and speech synthetizer systems were developed in the late seventies, early eighties as a result of research conducted at the Department of Phonetics of the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Their primary aim was to aid scientific study of the sound structure of speech. The present paper is an account of our research experiences and results accumulated in the past few years in the phonetic analysis and synthesis of Russian speech. Preliminary work and earlier results were reported in our book titled "A