On Building a New Slovak Voice for the Czech Unit-Selection TTS System ARTIC

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

On Building a New Slovak Voice for the Czech Unit-Selection TTS System ARTIC

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

ARTIC (Artificial Talker in Czech) is a corpus-based text-to-speech (TTS) system that enables to synthesize an arbitrary text, mainly for the Czech language. Basically, two versions of ARTIC are available ? a single unit instance system (also known as fixed-inventory synthesis, e.g. diphone-based synthesis) with the quality of resulting speech limited by the fixed inventory, and multiple unit instance system with the quality profiting from employing a unit selection algorithm to select the longest suitable sequence of phonetic units from many units available. In this paper, a process of building a new Slovak voice for the unit selection version of ARTIC is presented. All steps in the design, from the preparation of a suitable speech corpus to the creation of an acoustic unit inventory of the new Slovak voice and its use in the ARTIC system will be described. Special focus will be given to the description of both phonetic features of Slovak and issues in real-time text processing.

Název v anglickém jazyce

On Building a New Slovak Voice for the Czech Unit-Selection TTS System ARTIC

Popis výsledku anglicky

ARTIC (Artificial Talker in Czech) is a corpus-based text-to-speech (TTS) system that enables to synthesize an arbitrary text, mainly for the Czech language. Basically, two versions of ARTIC are available ? a single unit instance system (also known as fixed-inventory synthesis, e.g. diphone-based synthesis) with the quality of resulting speech limited by the fixed inventory, and multiple unit instance system with the quality profiting from employing a unit selection algorithm to select the longest suitable sequence of phonetic units from many units available. In this paper, a process of building a new Slovak voice for the unit selection version of ARTIC is presented. All steps in the design, from the preparation of a suitable speech corpus to the creation of an acoustic unit inventory of the new Slovak voice and its use in the ARTIC system will be described. Special focus will be given to the description of both phonetic features of Slovak and issues in real-time text processing.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

JD - Využití počítačů, robotika a její aplikace

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA102%2F09%2F0989" target="_blank" >GA102/09/0989: Nové perspektivní metody vysoce kvalitní syntézy mluvené češtiny</a><br>

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2010

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Speech Processing

ISBN

978-80-86269-21-4

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Počet stran výsledku

7

Strana od-do

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Název nakladatele

Institute of Photonics and Electronics AS CR

Místo vydání

Prague

Místo konání akce

Prague

Datum konání akce

1. 1. 2010

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

EUR - Evropská akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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