Close Copy Speech Synthesis for Speech Perception Testing

Bachan, Jolanta; Gibbon, Dafydd

doi:10.14746/il.2006.13.2

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“…(2) Phonological and phonetic theories and descriptions are increasingly being operationally tested by the synthesis of their predictions, using speech synthesis systems (Hertz et al 1999;Dirksen and Coleman 1997;Bachan and Gibbon 2006). Operational tests are necessary though not sufficient criteria for truth, of course, but within the framework of the full Ecological Cycle sketched in the present contribution, this technology has an important role to play.…”

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“…Current TTS development environments are theoretically, but generally not in practice, language independent. Voice creation is not easy, but adaptation of a voice in one language to another language or a different style or gender in the same language can provide an adequate platform for some purposes (Bachan and Gibbon 2006).…”

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Formal is Natural: Toward an Ecological Phonology

Gibbon

2009

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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Naturalism Phonology (NP) has a history of opposition to abstractness, to generative linguistics, to formalist approaches, and differs from these in its strong focus on external rather than distributional, structural evidential domains. But evidence domains are orthogonal to empirical and formal methods, and, like formalist theories such as Optimality Theory (OT), the pedigree of NP includes structuralist and generative phonology. In an analysis which is sympathetic to both NP and OT, this contribution examines the relation between NP and OT, analyses a classic OT case study of syllabification in Tashlhiyt Berber, and presents computational linguistic analyses of this case, as well as of English syllable phonotactics and of tone language tonotactics. The contribution advocates an opening towards these methods, and the adoption of explicit, consistent, precise, complete and sound formal criteria for theories, which enable an exact interpretation in terms of operational models and computational implementations, and practical applications. The general frame of reference is a the Ecological Cycle in theory formation, from clarification of the domain through theory construction, interpretation with a model, evaluation and application in the original evidential domain, with payback to the language community from which the evidence was gained.

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Formal is Natural: Toward an Ecological Phonology

Gibbon

2009

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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“…Full details for use of the software tools are given on the MBROLA website and in Bachan (2007Bachan ( & 2010, Bachan et al (2006) and Gibbon et al (2008).…”

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