U.S.-India Cooperative Research: Development of Rules for Synthesis of Hindi Speech, Award in U.S. and Indian Currency

美印合作研究：开发印地语语音合成规则，以美国和印度货币获奖

• 批准号: 9421146
• 负责人: Kenneth Stevens
• 金额: $ 2.31万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-12-01 至 1998-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9421146&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; India; Cooperative; Research; Development

Description: This project supports a cooperative project by a US scientist, Dr. Kenneth Stevens, from the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Dr. S.S. Agrawal of the Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI) in New Delhi, India. The two scientists plan to conduct synthesis of Hindi speech by computer, and to develop rules for synthesis and concatenation of basic Hindi phonemes to generate words and sentences. The results of these studies would be subsequently used to develop a text-to-speech synthesizer for the Hindi language. The KLSYN88, a cascade-parallel format synthesizer developed at MIT will be used as the basic tool to analyze and synthesize the sounds. Since Hindi speech posses several types of special sounds that differ from the sounds in European languages, the most important of these are the stops and affricates, special attention will be paid to the analysis and synthesis of these sounds. In addition to the two senior scientists, a post doctorate and a junior researcher from MIT will also participate in the research and will work with the Indian scientists in the New Delhi Laboratory. Scope: This project allows cooperation of two well known scientists whose capabilities complement each other to do important scientific work. The major experimental work related to analysis and synthesis of Hindi speech will be carried at CEERI, while some experiments will also be conducted at MIT. There will be frequent exchange of ideas, review of data, techniques and results through correspondence and through exchanges of visits by the P.I.'s and by the U.S. junior scientists. This project meets the objectives of the Division of International Programs in fostering international collaboration and increasing the exposure of young scientists to the international scientific scene.

描述：该项目支持马萨诸塞州剑桥市马萨诸塞州理工学院电子研究所的美国科学家肯尼斯·史蒂文斯（Kenneth Stevens）博士的合作项目，以及印度新德里的中央电子电子工程研究所（CEERI）的S.S. Agrawal博士。 两位科学家计划通过计算机进行印地语语音的综合，并制定基本印地语音素综合和串联以生成单词和句子的规则。 这些研究的结果随后将用于开发印地语语言的文本到语音合成器。 MIT开发的级联平行格式合成器的KLSYN88将用作分析和合成声音的基本工具。 由于印地语语音具有几种与欧洲语言中的声音不同的特殊声音，因此其中最重要的是停止和杂语，因此将特别注意这些声音的分析和综合。 除两位高级科学家外，MIT的邮政博士学位和初级研究人员还将参加这项研究，并将与新德里实验室的印度科学家合作。 范围：该项目允许两位知名科学家的合作，他们的能力相互补充以进行重要的科学工作。 与印地语语音分析和合成有关的主要实验工作将在CEERI进行，而一些实验也将在MIT进行。 通过通信以及P.I.和美国初级科学家的访问，将经常交流思想，数据，技术和结果的审查。该项目符合国际计划部的目标，以促进国际合作，并增加年轻科学家在国际科学现场的接触。