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Grůber, M. and Tihelka, D. and Matoušek, J. : Evaluation of various unit types in the unit selection approach for the Czech language using the Festival system . Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, p. 276-281, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, 2007.

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The present paper focuses on the utilization of concatenative speech synthesis, aiming to determine and compare the influence on the synthesized speech quality when various unit types are used in the unit selection approach. There are several unit types which can be used for this purpose. This work deals with those most widely used, i.e. halfphones, diphones, phones, triphones and syllables. Speech was synthesized using these unit types and the outcome was listened to a by number of listeners, whose task was to evaluate the quality of synthetic speech. The result of the listening test performed for the Czech language is presented.

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Title: Evaluation of various unit types in the unit selection approach for the Czech language using the Festival system
Author: Grůber, M. ; Tihelka, D. ; Matoušek, J.
Language: English
Date of publication: 22 Aug 2007
Year: 2007
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Title of journal or book: Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis
Page: 276 - 281
Publisher: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität
Address: Bonn
Date: 22 Aug 2007 - 24 Aug 2007
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speech synthesis, unit selection, various unit types

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@INPROCEEDINGS{GruberM_2007_Evaluationofvarious,
 author = {Gr\r{u}ber, M. and Tihelka, D. and Matou\v{s}ek, J.},
 title = {Evaluation of various unit types in the unit selection approach for the Czech language using the Festival system},
 year = {2007},
 publisher = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit?t},
 journal = {Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis},
 address = {Bonn},
 pages = {276-281},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/GruberM_2007_Evaluationofvarious},
}