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Matoušek, J. and Hanzlíček, Z. and Tihelka, D. : Hybrid syllable/triphone speech synthesis . Interspeech 2005 — Eurospeech, proceedings of 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, p. 2529-2532, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005.

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In this paper, the syllable, an alternative phonetic unit to the phone, is researched in the context of speech synthesis. Several approaches to syllable modelling within the statistical approach (using hidden Markov models) to the acoustic unit inventory creation are proposed and evaluated. To be able to synthesize an arbitrary text, the syllable inventories were supplemented with triphones resulting in hybrid syllable/triphone inventories. Listening tests were accomplished both to assess the quality of the resulting synthetic speech produced using the hybrid syllable/triphone inventories and to choose the best approach to syllable modelling. The resulting synthetic speech is highly intelligible and fluent. Although the synthetic speech generated using the baseline triphone inventory was assessed slightly better, the results of the very first experiments with syllable modelling are very promising.

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Title: Hybrid syllable/triphone speech synthesis
Author: Matoušek, J. ; Hanzlíček, Z. ; Tihelka, D.
Language: English
Date of publication: 4 Sep 2005
Year: 2005
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: Interspeech 2005 — Eurospeech, proceedings of 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Page: 2529 - 2532
ISSN: 1018-4074
Address: Lisbon, Portugal
Date: 4 Sep 2005 - 8 Sep 2005
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text-to-speech, automatic acoustic unit inventory creation, syllable, triphone, syllable modelling, speech synthesis

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@INPROCEEDINGS{MatousekJ_2005_Hybrid,
 author = {Matou\v{s}ek, J. and Hanzl\'{i}\v{c}ek, Z. and Tihelka, D.},
 title = {Hybrid syllable/triphone speech synthesis},
 year = {2005},
 address = {Lisbon, Portugal},
 pages = {2529-2532},
 booktitle = {Interspeech 2005 -- Eurospeech, proceedings of 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology},
 ISSN = {1018-4074},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/MatousekJ_2005_Hybrid},
}