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Matoušek, J. and Kala, J. : On modelling glottal stop in Czech text-to-speech synthesis . Text, Speech and Dialogue, proceedings of the 8th International Conference TSD 2005, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 3658, p. 257-264, Springer , Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

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This paper deals with the modelling of glottal stop for the purposes of Czech text-to-speech synthesis. Phonetic features of glottal stop are discussed here and a phonetic transcription rule for inserting glottal stop into the sequences of Czech phones is proposed. Two approaches to glottal stop modelling are introduced in the paper. The first one uses glottal stop as a stand-alone phone. The second one models glottal stop as an allophone of a vowel. Both approaches are evaluated from the point of view of both the automatic segmentation of speech and the quality of the resulting synthetic speech. Better results are obtained when glottal stop is modelled as a stand-alone phone.

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Title: On modelling glottal stop in Czech text-to-speech synthesis
Author: Matoušek, J. ; Kala, J.
Language: English
Date of publication: 12 Sep 2005
Year: 2005
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: Text, Speech and Dialogue, proceedings of the 8th International Conference TSD 2005
Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Číslo vydání: 3658
Page: 257 - 264
ISBN: 3-540-28789-2
ISSN: 0302-9743
Publisher: Springer
Address: Berlin, Heidelberg
Date: 12 Sep 2005 - 15 Sep 2005
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Keywords

speech synthesis, text-to-speech, glottal stop, Czech

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@INPROCEEDINGS{MatousekJ_2005_Onmodellingglottal_1,
 author = {Matou\v{s}ek, J. and Kala, J.},
 title = {On modelling glottal stop in Czech text-to-speech synthesis},
 year = {2005},
 publisher = {Springer },
 address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},
 volume = {3658},
 pages = {257-264},
 booktitle = {Text, Speech and Dialogue, proceedings of the 8th International Conference TSD 2005},
 series = {Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence},
 ISBN = {3-540-28789-2},
 ISSN = {0302-9743},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/MatousekJ_2005_Onmodellingglottal_1},
}