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Matoušek, J. and Tihelka, D. : Slovak text-to-speech synthesis in ARTIC system . Text, Speech and Dialogue, proceedings of the 7th International Conference TSD 2004, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 3206, p. 155-162, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2004.

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This paper presents a brand-new Slovak text-to-speech system. It was developed within the framework of ARTIC system (primarily designed to synthesize Czech speech) with respect to the knowledge of Slovak language. Thus, statistical approach (using hidden Markov models) was employed to build an acoustic unit inventory of Slovak language in a fully automatic way. Both phonetic transcription and prosodic rules were proposed to convert an input text to its phonetic form and to estimate its suprasegmental features. As a result, a fully working text-to speech system that converts an arbitrary Slovak text to the corresponding output speech was designed. The informal listening tests show the system is capable of producing speech of a high quality (with high level of intelligibility and good naturalness).

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Title: Slovak text-to-speech synthesis in ARTIC system
Author: Matoušek, J. ; Tihelka, D.
Language: English
Date of publication: 8 Sep 2004
Year: 2004
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: Text, Speech and Dialogue, proceedings of the 7th International Conference TSD 2004
Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Číslo vydání: 3206
Page: 155 - 162
ISBN: 3-540-23049-1
ISSN: 0302-9743
Publisher: Springer
Address: Berlin, Heidelberg
Date: 8 Sep 2004 - 11 Sep 2004
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Keywords

text-to-speech, speech synthesis, acoustic unit inventory, HMM-based segmentation of speech, Slovak language, multilingual TTS system, ARTIC

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@INPROCEEDINGS{MatousekJ_2004_Slovaktext-to-speech,
 author = {Matou\v{s}ek, J. and Tihelka, D.},
 title = {Slovak text-to-speech synthesis in ARTIC system},
 year = {2004},
 publisher = {Springer},
 address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},
 volume = {3206},
 pages = {155-162},
 booktitle = {Text, Speech and Dialogue, proceedings of the 7th International Conference TSD 2004},
 series = {Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence},
 ISBN = {3-540-23049-1},
 ISSN = {0302-9743},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/MatousekJ_2004_Slovaktext-to-speech},
}