Introduction
1. About Speech Synthesis
    Text Input/Recognition
    Text Preprocessing and Linguistic Analysis
    Context Sensitive Rules and Concatenation
    Prosody Analysis and Control
2. Unit Definition and Diphone Concatenation
3. Defining the Minimum Diphone Set for Synthesis of Intelligible Mandarin
    Chinese Characters and Phonetic Symbols
    The Mandarin Phone Inventory
        Mandarin Consonants
        Mandarin Vowels
    Intra- and Inter- Syllable Structure and Rules
        Intra-Syllabic Structure
        Inter-Syllabic Structure
    Diphone Reduction Strategies
        Allophonic Semi-Vowels
        Allophonic Affricates
        'Silent' Consonants
        Rare Usage
        Summary of Diphone Reductions
4. Tone
        Tone Sandhi
        Sentential Tone
5. Prosody
        Phrasing
        Duration
        Pitch
        Stress
6. Conclusion

Bibliography

Tables:
Table 1. Pinyin-Worldbet Monopthong Vowels and Allophones
Table 2. Mandarin Dipthong Vowels
Table 3. Mandarin Semi-Vowels
Table 4. Mandarin Medials + Vowels Finals
Table 5. Mandarin Intra-Syllabic Diphones: Initials + Medials; Initials + Finals (Monopthongs)
Table 6. Mandarin Intra-Syllabic Diphones: Initials + Medials; Initials + Finals (Dipthongs)
Table 7. Mandarin Intra-Syllabic Diphones: Vowel Finals  + Nasal Finals; Medials + Vowel Finals; Medials + Nasal Finals
Table 8. Mandarin Inter-Syllabic Diphones: Final Monopthong Vowels
Table 9. Mandarin Inter-Syllabic Diphones: Final Dipthong Vowels
Table 10. Mandarin Inter-Syllabic Diphones: Final Consonants
Table 11. Mandarin Inter-Syllabic Diphones: Initials

Richard Altwarg
Macquarie University, Speech and Language Processing
SLP807 Speech Synthesis