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Matoušek, J. and Tihelka, D. and Romportl, J. : Building of a Speech Corpus Optimised for Unit Selection TTS Synthesis . LREC 2008, proceedings of 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, ELRA, 2008.

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Abstract

The paper deals with the process of designing a phonetically and prosodically rich speech corpus for unit selection speech synthesis. The attention is given mainly to the recording and verification stage of the process. In order to ensure as high quality and consistency of the recordings as possible, a special recording environment consisting of a recording session management and "pluggable" chain of checking modules was designed and utilised. Other stages, namely text collection (including) both phonetically and prosodically balanced sentence selection and a careful annotation on both orthographic and phonetic level are also mentioned.

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Title: Building of a Speech Corpus Optimised for Unit Selection TTS Synthesis
Author: Matoušek, J. ; Tihelka, D. ; Romportl, J.
Language: English
Date of publication: 26 May 2008
Year: 2008
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: LREC 2008, proceedings of 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Publisher: ELRA
Date: 26 May 2008 - 1 Jun 2008
2008-06-19 13:34:38 / 2008-11-12 21:44:47 /

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text corpus collection, speech corpus recording, recording session management, TTS speech synthesis, phonetic coverage, prosodic coverage

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@INPROCEEDINGS{MatousekJ_2008_BuildingofaSpeech,
 author = {Matou\v{s}ek, J. and Tihelka, D. and Romportl, J.},
 title = {Building of a Speech Corpus Optimised for Unit Selection TTS Synthesis},
 year = {2008},
 publisher = {ELRA},
 booktitle = {LREC 2008, proceedings of 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/MatousekJ_2008_BuildingofaSpeech},
}