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Kolář, J. and Romportl, J. and Psutka, J. : The Czech speech and prosody database both for ASR and TTS purposes . EUROSPEECH 2003 PROCEEDINGS, p. 1577-1580, ISCA, Geneva, 2003.

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This paper describes a preparation of the first large Czech prosodic database which should be useful both in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. In the area of ASR we intend to use it for an automatic punctuation annotation, in the area of TTS for building a prosodic module for the Czech high-quality synthesis. The database is based on the Czech Radio&TV Broadcast News Corpus (UWB_B02) recorded at the University of West Bohemia. The configuration of the database includes recorded speech, raw and stylized F0 values, frame level energy values, a word- and phoneme-level time alignment, and a linguistically motivated description of the prosodic data. A technique of prosodic data acquisition and stylization is described. A new tagset for a linguistical annotation of the Czech prosody is proposed and used.

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Title: The Czech speech and prosody database both for ASR and TTS purposes
Author: Kolář, J. ; Romportl, J. ; Psutka, J.
Language: English
Date of publication: 1 Sep 2003
Year: 2003
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Title of journal or book: EUROSPEECH 2003 PROCEEDINGS
Page: 1577 - 1580
Publisher: ISCA
Address: Geneva
Date: 1 Sep 2003 - 4 Sep 2003
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prosody, automatic punctuation, automatic speech recognition, TTS

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@INPROCEEDINGS{KolarJ_2003_TheCzechspeechand,
 author = {Kol\'{a}\v{r}, J. and Romportl, J. and Psutka, J.},
 title = {The Czech speech and prosody database both for ASR and TTS purposes},
 year = {2003},
 publisher = {ISCA},
 journal = {EUROSPEECH 2003 PROCEEDINGS},
 address = {Geneva},
 pages = {1577-1580},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/KolarJ_2003_TheCzechspeechand},
}