Artic: a new czech text-to-speech system using statistical approach to speech segment database construction
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The paper presents ARTIC, a brand-new Czech text-to-speech (TTS) system. A statistical approach to speech segment database construction is used: Hidden Markov Models are employed to model triphones on the basis of the large speech corpus and to segment the corpus into triphone-based speech units - basic speech units used by the speech synthesizer. A speech segment selection algorithm is described to choose the representative instance of each speech unit from the segmented speech corpus. A text processing module converts the written text at the input of TTS system to the sequence of phones - basic phonetic units needed to describe the pronunciation of the input text - and prosodic marks. Finally, speech processing is performed using two versions of a PSOLA algorithm.
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Artic: a new czech text-to-speech system using statistical approach to speech segment database construction
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The paper presents ARTIC, a brand-new Czech text-to-speech (TTS) system. A statistical approach to speech segment database construction is used: Hidden Markov Models are employed to model triphones on the basis of the large speech corpus and to segment the corpus into triphone-based speech units - basic speech units used by the speech synthesizer. A speech segment selection algorithm is described to choose the representative instance of each speech unit from the segmented speech corpus. A text processing module converts the written text at the input of TTS system to the sequence of phones - basic phonetic units needed to describe the pronunciation of the input text - and prosodic marks. Finally, speech processing is performed using two versions of a PSOLA algorithm.
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D - Article in proceedings
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JD - Use of computers, robotics and its application
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GV102/96/K087: Theory and application of speach communication in czech
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2000
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Artic: a new czech text-to-speech system using statistical approach to speech segment database construction
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7801501144
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4
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China Military Friendship Publish
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Beijing
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D - Article in proceedings
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JD - Use of computers, robotics and its application
Year of implementation
2000