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Matoušek, J. and Romportl, J. and Tihelka, D. : Speech synthesis in ARTIC TTS system . Speech Processing, proceedings of the 14th Czech-German Workshop, p. 135-139, Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics AS CR, Prague, 2004.

Abstract

ARTIC is a corpus-based system that employs a carefully designed large speech corpus collected from a single speaker. Statistical approach is applied to create an acoustic unit inventory in a fully automatic way. Several improvements have been accomplished to increase the intelligibility of the resulting speech. Two approaches to the generation of prosodic features were proposed. The rule-based approach applies a set of linguistically motivated rules derived from phonetic research and description of the suprasegmental speech phenomena. The data-driven approach employs a prosodic model, which parameters are set up automatically using real speech data from a corpus. To produce as smooth synthetic speech as possible, a on-line unit candidate selection was experimented with as well. Speech is produced using an OLA method. Some experiments were also made with an harmonic/noise-based speech production method. Nowadays, Slovak and German language modules are implemented besides two Czech voices.

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Title: Speech synthesis in ARTIC TTS system
Author: Matoušek, J. ; Romportl, J. ; Tihelka, D.
Language: English
Date of publication: 13 Sep 2004
Year: 2004
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: Speech Processing, proceedings of the 14th Czech-German Workshop
Page: 135 - 139
ISBN: 80-86269-11-6
Publisher: Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics AS CR
Address: Prague
Date: 13 Sep 2004 - 15 Sep 2004
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Keywords

TTS ARTIC, glottal stop modelling, model-level clustering, automatic segmentation refinements, rule-based prosody generator, data-driven prosody generator, unit selection, harmonic/noise-based method, new languages

BibTeX

@INPROCEEDINGS{MatousekJ_2004_Speechsynthesisin,
 author = {Matou\v{s}ek, J. and Romportl, J. and Tihelka, D.},
 title = {Speech synthesis in ARTIC TTS system},
 year = {2004},
 publisher = {Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics AS CR},
 address = {Prague},
 pages = {135-139},
 booktitle = {Speech Processing, proceedings of the 14th Czech-German Workshop},
 ISBN = {80-86269-11-6},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/MatousekJ_2004_Speechsynthesisin},
}