week4 Flashcards
1
Q
what is a cochlear implant
A
Neuroprosthetic device that directly stimulates the auditory nerve.
2
Q
text to speech contains 3 processes:
A
- test analysis
- linquistic analysis
- waveform generation
3
Q
text analysis does (2)
A
- identify tokens
- normalization
4
Q
linguistic analysis does
A
finds the linguistic info to help produce the waveforms
5
Q
what are first generation systems?
A
explicit model based systems
6
Q
what are second generation systems?
A
data based systems (just give back human produced speech)
7
Q
what are third generation systems?
A
systems learning from human produced speech.
8
Q
2 examples from first generation systems
A
articulatory synthesis
formant sysnthesis
9
Q
2 examples from second generation systems
A
concatenative synthesis
diphone synthesis
10
Q
2 examples from third generation systems
A
- hidden markov model synthesis
- deep learning based synthesis
